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...Tikal and Angkor are among the fabled places that disappeared into the sands or jungles of time. Surviving cities have undergone wild swings of fortune. Alexandria, Egypt, may have housed several hundred thousand people at its peak in Roman times, but when Napoleon entered it in 1798, it had shrunk to 4,000 souls. Since then, it has again boomed to nearly 3 million and faces grave ecological threats. The gleaming city that Arab poet Ibn Dukmak compared to "a golden crown, set with pearls, perfumed with musk and camphor, and shining from East to the West," is slowly sinking...
...rents are driving the working class to the suburbs -- and long commutes discourage after-work aperitifs. As a result, many cafes have beefed up their menus and make up the lost zinc trade from office workers who no longer go home for lunch. In the country, mechanized farming has shrunk village populations, leading to the closing of the cafes that served them. Still, most towns have a place where tradition survives. In Houlgate, a small town on the Normandy coast, six men and a woman chatted around the Formica counter on a recent Saturday. "We come for the conviviality...
...concrete landscape in a bleak terrain. Behind communism's illusions there always lurked a chilling soullessness. From an unlimited expanse of possibility, the horizon of Russia's future has shrunk to a prefabricated emptiness devoid of assurance that things may one day change for the better...
...When unemployment, forced early retirement and make-work training schemes are taken together, roughly 40% of the east's labor force is out of work; nearly 3 million jobs have disappeared since unification. Although Bonn is pumping more than $100 billion a year into the east, economic output has shrunk to a third of its preunification level, and the long-predicted rebound is not in sight...
...comprehensive GATT agreement, expected to boost global commerce substantially, U.S. and European negotiators need to settle their long-running dispute over agricultural subsidies. The U.S. has demanded that European governments trim their healthy price supports, although they have shrunk already under a recent reform package. The E.C. has agreed, but the two sides cannot come to terms on the details...