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Since December, plywood boards and black plastic sheets have covered the bagel shop's exterior windows and doors. The interior entrance stays locked...
...Hollywood Boulevard is popular for hanging out, usually at the corner of Cherokee, while Sunset Strip features straight prostitution and Santa Monica Boulevard specializes in the gay sex trade. Abandoned buildings serve as "squats," the makeshift homes inhabited by as many as several dozen youths. Entombed by the thick plywood nailed to the windows and doors, the youths live with drugs, rats and human waste...
That means the "Humanities Quad," scheduled to open in the fall of 1996 or whenever Harvard can find a builder with the proper amount of minority workers, plywood and silver-capped teeth, will no longer be centered around the Freshman Union. In fact, the new complex will include Boylston Hall, which will only become accessible to the Union area when the University finally completes a proposed Sky Tram...
This week the Malecon belongs to the balseros. But the weather is not on their side. Juan, 20, stands knee-deep in the swelling surf. Despite cheers from the crowd above, he is finding it impossible to lash his inner tubes to the plywood he hopes will bear him away. The waves are too high; lightning flashes and a pelting rain begins. Does it matter whether he ends up in Miami or only Guantanamo? "Who cares?" he asks. "So long as it's out of here." He has no job, no money, no prospects, he says; he must escape...
...undertake improvements. "Some companies decide they can't afford it because of additional costs, such as the Americans with Disabilities Act, asbestos removal and sprinkler upgrades." Then he drops a bombshell. He has just come from Northridge Meadows, and that bothers him too. "That building had no plywood shear walls," he says. "It's a perfect example of a building that doesn't meet current codes...