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...APOCALYPSE. And judging from the scene around him, maybe it is. Several hundred young hedonists join him in dancing wild tribal stomps as strobe lights flash and 50,000 watts of techno- house music blast from the speakers of a New York City nightclub called the Shelter. On the fringes, others watch an upside-down projection of Flintstones % cartoons or sidle up to the nonalcoholic "smart bar" for bottled water or vitamin-enriched fruit juice. "It's a good crowd tonight," observes Moby, a techno deejay with a loyal following. "I don't sense the usual nightclub aggression...
...when the two superpowers were locked in a state of high alert. This week correspondent Ted Gup advances our understanding greatly with a cover story focusing on the Federal Government's grand plan to preserve post-apocalypse control. As Ted reports, planning went far beyond contingencies to shelter top-level bureaucrats and ensure the survival of the U.S. government. It also included plans to rescue the nation's cultural heritage, from Leonardo da Vinci's Ginevra de' Benci to the Declaration of Independence...
...Soviet newspaper last year as an underground city about 500 acres in size, built at several levels ranging in depth from 230 ft. to 395 ft. He said the bunker was begun in the second half of the 1960s and completed by the mid-'70s, could shelter as many as 120,000 people, and included food supplies that could last up to 30 years. Quarters for top leaders were comfortably appointed, and movie theaters were built for entertainment. Some 30 miles outside Moscow in Sofrino, an underground broadcast-communications installation built during Nikita Khrushchev's tenure is now outdated...
...between those who have health care and other job benefits and those who do not. For the former group, the chief concern is getting government approval for innovative high-tech treatments that may prolong their lives. For those lacking benefits, the problem is to get care and shelter of any kind. With AIDS treatment often costing well into six figures and patients frequently surviving years while unable to work, those who lack benefits -- or who are manipulated out of them / by employers or insurers -- may find themselves reduced to public charity or living on the street...
...councillors say these problems--the shelter and the promised housing--must be resolved before it will act on new MIT requests...