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...sort out these social mysteries? It has become extremely complicated to be polite in America. There was a time when the upwardly mobile and socially inecure believed as fervently as The Four Hundred that there existed somewhere???in the mind of God, perhaps, or the graven tablets of Emily Post?an absolute standard of The Correct. All contingencies were covered in this elaborate system of law, as refined as the Talmud and sometimes as difficult to interpret. But trying to cultivate manners today is like buying a house in Grosse Pointe and discovering that the previous tenants were the Symbionese...
Americans throw away 125 million tons of garbage every year. In the past, it has been routinely picked up, hauled away and dumped somewhere???out of sight and mind. But lately, as disposal costs mount and dumping sites in metropolitan areas get scarcer, cities have been thinking anew about their solid wastes. What they have found is that from 70% to 80% of the refuse consists of paper, cardboard, wood, plastics and food scraps. The rest is mostly glass and metal. Their conclusion: with a little modern alchemy, municipal garbage can be converted into municipal gold...
Last Chance. But a start has to be made somewhere???it all takes time. A new development in a slum area will only slowly inspire reconstruction of the other slums around it. And it has been 30 years or more for instance, since Philadelphia's upper-and middle-class families considered living in the center of town. Until Bacon started its renewal, there was precious little reason why they should. But Bacon and other U.S. planners are, and properly should be, thinking in terms of the long future, to make the city attractive and stimulating again?creating new neighborhoods, bringing...
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