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Just absorbing hundreds of thousands of immigrants, all at once, would be a tough enough task for the overburdened overlapping local governments. (For instance, of L.A.'s 550,000 schoolchildren, 117,000 speak one of 104 languages better than they do English?including 35 kids fluent only in Gujarati, a language of western India.) But another daunting array of urban problems will not wait. L.A. is aging. "Streets are breaking up. Water mains are breaking up. Bridges are crumbling," says Harvey Perloff, dean of U.C.L.A.'s school of architecture and urban planning. "The day of reckoning is going to happen...
...something to remember her by. At a royal ball at Melbourne's Hilton hotel, she stopped conversation dead by making her entrance in a shimmery, ice-gray gown cut daringly deep across one shoulder. At Auckland's Eden Park, Diana elicited squeals of delight from 35,000 schoolchildren when, with three Maori teenagers, she joined in the hongi, the traditional Polynesian greeting of pressing noses. Prince Charles, meanwhile, was nearly relegated to the role of spear chucker. A native warrior thrust a ceremonial spear at him and asked if he came in peace. The prince quickly replied that...
...school and I smelled something," she said, "and then I felt something pressing on my chest." At that point she passed out and was taken to the hospital, along with 250 other schoolchildren from the area. Her ailment: a mysterious malady that in the past four weeks has afflicted as many as 900 West Bank Palestinians, the majority of them young women. It all started at a girls' school in the West Bank village of Arrabe when pupils began to complain of the same symptoms: headaches, abdominal pains, dizziness, energy loss. The ailment spread to eight schools in Jenin...
...popular couple cheerfully teased the press before fielding the more innocent questions of excited schoolchildren. Charles gallantly affirmed his fondness for barbecues, while Diana proudly announced that William boasts six teeth and, of course, a fondness for koala bears. Afterward they were whisked off to clamber up the sacred aboriginal monolith of Ayers Rock. For. a few moments, the couple savored the sunset together. But soon they had to return to earth-and a host of royal obligations...
...democracy that served as a base for visits to Nicaragua, Panama and El Salvador. John Paul clearly hoped that his words in this open society would resonate throughout the region. After emerging from his plane at Juan Santamaría International Airport to the delighted shrieks of hundreds of schoolchildren, he knelt to kiss the ground in his now traditional gesture of blessing. Then, almost immediately, he got down to tough business. Instead of offering a perfunctory response to the welcoming address by Costa Rican President Luis Alberto Monge, the Pontiff used the occasion to set forth the major themes...