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...safety hazards. Across the road, 36 armed M-60 tanks stand ready to go to war-if they can churn their way out of a vast mudhole that turns into a pond whenever it rains. At Fliegerhorst barracks near Hanau, 15 miles south of Büdingen, helicopter repair crews have taken over the base's only gymnasium. They repack drive shafts on the basketball court beneath a sign that reads NO DUNKING ALLOWED. At Rivers barracks near Giessen, nearly 3,000 soldiers are crammed into what was a Wehrmacht military prison during World...
...eight or so bodies in the company's burial capsules thawed and decomposed. The relatives of three of the deceased-who had paid a total of $31,294 to have their loved ones preserved-sued Cryonics Executive Robert Nelson and Mortician Joseph Klockgether. Nelson who runs a TV repair business, insisted that customers realized he was engaged in nonprofit research and made no guarantees. The jury was unconvinced, and awarded the relatives a cool $928,594. In Berkeley, Calif., President Arthur Quaife of Trans Time Inc., who claims that his is the nation's only surviving cryonic suspension...
...want to go in the hospital, to take whatever tests can be taken.' Quite a smart woman. [Looks up to make sure you realize this.] And the doctor said to her, it's gall bladder, and we'll just operate. We take it out. We'll repair it. God knows what. [The sentences sound increasingly like Yiddish-English.] "So ... [long pause] she was operated on [by a different doctor]. My father and I were there. And the doctor came down...
...presided over one of the few success stories among cities of the recession-plagued Northeast. Despite high unemployment in the steel industry, corporations have invested $1.5 billion in new office buildings, speeding Pittsburgh's transition from mill town to corporate center. Caliguiri is spending millions more to repair bridges, build water and sewer systems and upgrade housing in the city's older neighborhoods. Predicts the mayor: "Pittsburgh is going to be the first major city in the Northeast to see actual gains in population." (It lost 18.5% in the past decade...
...were lower than comparable privately owned buildings and that--perhaps--there was money to be made, or at least not to be lost in such large quantities. Ergo, Harvard Real Estate. Formed in 1978, the wholly owned subsidiary of the University has worked, its officials says, to improve and repair Harvard's properties and at the same time to raise rents so that, in the words of president Sally Zeckhauser, it can attempt to win "a fair return on the University's investment...