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While Massachusetts has to capture high-tech companies, other states are using different approaches. Vermont is trying to create new jobs without damaging its image as the scenic Green Mountain State. Says John Simson, director of the state's planning office: "We're not smokestack chasing. We are doing quite a bit to spread our manufacturing base." General Electric Co., for example, built one plant in Burlington, but its second new factory is in Rutland, 67 miles to the south...
...ubiquitous and often intrusive microphones in the Joe Louis Arena not only broadcast both true and false details of the bargaining but influenced the actors trying to shape history in the glass-walled suites of the 73-story Detroit Plaza Hotel, which towers above the city's scenic waterfront...
...world's largest windmill began operating last year in Boone, N.C. With blades that stretch 60 meters (200 ft.) from tip to tip and can generate 2,000 kw of electricity, it is also, it seems, the world's noisiest. Besides dominating the scenic Blue Ridge Mountains landscape-or despoiling it, as some of those living near by complain-the monster rattles windows, bounces cups and saucers and creates an irritating swish-swish...
...Championships that followed, held on the scenic Princeton campus, were at best bittersweet. The aquawomen finished third--their best finish ever. Although they lost to Brown, a team which they had soundly defeated earlier in the season, the Crimson whipped Yale, one to which they had come up a little short...
What is New Hampshire? An almanac calls it a "relatively small but well wooded and scenic state of mountains, lakes and rapid rivers that provide a good water supply and large hydroelectric-power potential." About a million people inhabit its 9304 square miles; only six states are smaller. The state motto, which by a Supreme Court decision may be taped over on license plates by citizens who object, is "Live Free or Die." State flower: purple lilac; bird: purple finch; tree: white birch. Populated by Indians before the Europeans arrived in the 1600s, New Hampshire became the ninth state...