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Among Mitraud's current projects is a $1.2 million W.W.F. plan to preserve the 1.5 million-sq-km area of Brazilian savanna known as the cerrado. (The less than $1-an-acre budget shows how badly outmatched many environmental actions still are.) The cerrado is one of the world's most diverse swaths of nature, a kind of National Geographic theme park where howler monkeys and hyacinth macaws dance and sing from buriti palms and vast treeless grasslands. But in the past 30 years, more than half its original vegetation has been chewed away--and almost 75% will be gone...
...free meats, cruelty-free cosmetics and ecologically friendly household products. But unlike the old niche stores, these markets are not ascetic: you can buy beer and wine as well as nonorganic produce, foods with refined sugar, and everyday household cleaners like Windex. The new stores, typically 30,000-plus sq. ft., also feature on-site bakeries and kitchens. The latter offer a wide assortment of meals, including vegetarian repasts...
Blondie was transferred to the 39th District in 1984. at its north end, the 39th is home to Philadelphia's elite. Large, expensive houses with well-manicured lawns are owned by business tycoons and politicians. But closer to downtown is an area of about 1 sq. mi. that is still home to the predatory crime common in America's inner cities. "It's the kind of place where if you saw a big TV satellite dish, you knew something was wrong because just about everyone there was on welfare," says the sergeant known as Schoolboy, who was Blondie's nominal...
...success of the Mills approach is all the more striking because America would seem to need another mall like Main Street needs another Starbucks. The U.S. already has more than 42,000, from strip malls on rural interstates to the gaudy Forum Shops in Las Vegas. That's 20 sq. ft. of shopping-center space for every man, woman and child in the nation. "We just don't need any more traditional shopping, period," says Craig Schmidt, a retail-industry analyst at Merrill Lynch...
Another Mills Corp. venture is Sawgrass Mills, 26 miles from Miami International Airport, which boasts annual sales of $450 per sq. ft., almost twice the U.S. average. Two Palm Beach, Fla., women recently made headlines by choppering in for a binge. Now plans are being drawn up for a "Shopper Chopper" to ferry patrons from Miami and Bal Harbour. Nearly half the 19 million people who showed up at Sawgrass last year were foreigners: a Saudi princess arrived with two limos trailed by rental trucks to transport the day's haul...