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...what distances there are to cover! Los Angeles County is 4,083 sq. mi., or 800 sq. mi. larger than Delaware and Rhode Island combined. If it were a state, it would be the eighth largest in population (7.9 million-behind Michigan, but ahead of New Jersey), not including California. The city measures 30 miles at its widest, 44 miles at its longest. It is roughly 465 sq. mi., and when you reach an edge and leave the city behind, there is no sense of leaving anything, because the fried chicken joints, the car washes, taco houses, newspaper racks, billboards...
Even in a Monopoly game, players buy only one avenue at a time. But in Worcestershire County in central England, most of a 7,200-acre town, Redditch, is up for sale-lock, stock and block. The package includes the land under 6,000 private houses, 5 million sq. ft. of factories, 52,000 sq. ft. of office space, 80 miles of roads, 2,650 parking places, two artificial lakes and a shopping mall adorned with live palm trees...
With good reason. The 40 training sites, 29 event sites and three Olympic Villages sprawl over more than 4,500 sq. mi. and are linked by about 150 miles of automobile-choked highways. Protecting the anticipated 600,000 athletes, coaches, dignitaries and tourists at each location, and in transit between them, will be a logistical nightmare. Moreover, unlike other nations that have been host to the Olympics, the U.S. does not have a national police force. At least 50 local, state and federal and nine private security organizations are responsible for guarding the Games. This potential jurisdictional tangle was sorted...
...eradication program was immediately launched. An 81-sq.-mi. area surrounding the find was put under quarantine, and aerial spraying of the pesticide Malathion, successfully used in California's $100 million 1980-82 war against the flies, began. Farm officials believe the flies may have entered the state on a plane or boat from Central or South America...
Mortimer Zuckerman, the real estate magnate whose Park Avenue offices in New York City overlook the site of a 1 million-sq.-ft. tower that he is building, joked on the telephone to friends last week that he can now afford lunch only at "some place with a takeout counter." The reason: Zuckerman, 47, has agreed to pay $182.5 million in cash to acquire the parent company of U.S. News & World Report (circ. 2.1 million), a purchase that will vault him into the major leagues of American journalism. He will be the sole owner of the magazine, a conservative...