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People he meets often simply refer to him as "the race-walker," he says...
West Germans refer to the broader phenomenon as the "alternative movement." Its numbers are estimated at between 4 million and 5 million, much larger than the 1.5 million to 2 million adherents of the Green Party itself. Thriving all over the country, the alternatives include squatters and punkers, doctors and lawyers, engineers and social workers, who have organized hundreds of communes in which they are attempting to define, as one of them puts it, "a culture alongside the traditional, confining German society." Joseph Huber, 34, a lecturer at Berlin's Free University and a philosopher of the alternative scene...
...research done in this country into the causes of cancer via the National Cancer Institute (NCI). And the NCI, which spent over $1 billion researching he causes of cancer in 1981, devotes a miniscule amount to investigation of potential carcinogens. Both the EPA and Food and Drug Administration refer suspected carcinogens to the NCI but the NCI tests only 26 suspected chemical carcinogens per year, according to a spokesman for the National Institute of Environmental Health Services...
...seat one way they have been flying merrily between cities like New York and Los Angeles-a trip that can cost four times as much at full price. But the fares that have been so pleasant for passengers have been torture for the troubled airline industry. Some executives privately refer to the deep discounts as going-out-of-business sales. Says Monte Lazarus, senior vice president of United Airlines, the largest U.S. carrier: "The fares are suicidal, fratricidal and genocidal...
...midst of foreclosure. Retail sales growth has slumped from the peak years of the 1970s, when profits grew at an annual rate of more than 15%. Owners of chic boutiques and eateries gripe that business is significantly down from last season. The "Silver Queen," as residents fondly refer to their town, even looks a bit bedraggled. Compared with accommodations in Vail, which now attracts more business, Aspen's once premier lodges seem cramped and aging. Says Boutique Owner Rita St. John: "People are paying $200 a night and getting a dump." There is no first-class resort hotel. Zoning...