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...usually in the eyes of the beholder, but for South Florida Developer Fred Bischoff, 42, this is it: Paradise Lakes Resort, a 184-unit, 40-acre retreat 17 miles north of Tampa. It advertises a healthful, family atmosphere, with lighted tennis and volleyball courts, an Olympic-size, 1,500-sq.-ft. swimming pool, a restaurant, two bars, a lake and a bandshell for outdoor concerts. Tenants include doctors, lawyers, teachers and clergymen. But a certain protocol must be observed. "Overt sexual behavior is unacceptable," says Bischoff. Visitors generally carry towels around to sit on "for hygiene, courtesy and just because...
Like most inner-city open space, the new 15,000-sq.-ft. Skid Row Park, just east of downtown Los Angeles, is littered with drunks and derelicts. But no one minds. The place was designed for them. The designers of the park, a Los Angeles firm called POD, Inc. (Process Oriented Design), have won an award from the American Society of Landscape Architects for their thoughtful and straightforward approach to a tough urban problem-combining a community park with a haven for bums...
...looser federal standard. By an 8-to-l vote, the Justices upheld that action. Wrote Justice Lewis Powell: "It would be paradoxical to conclude that by adopting the equal-protection clause of the 14th Amendment, the voters of the state thereby had violated it." Busing in the 711-sq.-mi. Los Angeles school district could be imposed yet again, but only in the unlikely event that plaintiffs can prove that the district intentionally segregated students...
...search for historical comparisons with Jubail is daunting. According to the Greek historian Herodotus, 100,000 laborers struggled for 20 years to construct the Pyramid of Khufu, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. Yet merely to level and grade Jubail's 66-sq.-mi. industrial park, a sector that comprises less than 15% of the entire city, engineers have had to shovel up and haul off 370 million cubic meters of sand-enough to fill the Khufu Pyramid 160 times over. If the landfill were used to construct a two-lane road, it would more than...
...this time around to gain control of outer space. Its machinations include a wave of hijackings for huge ransoms and the manufacture of ice cream spiked with a mind-bending drug. Bond and the luscious daughter of an old colleague man age to penetrate the organization's 150-sq.-mi. Texas ranch headquarters, only to face death at the hands of killer ants, man-eating pythons and other unfriendlies. At times, Gardner's stolid prose style makes one long for Ian Fleming's insouciance. Still, it is good to watch England's last knight jousting with...