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...seems not to have got the news. Flake's Allen African Methodist Episcopal Church in Queens, N.Y., with 9,000 members and a towering new $23 million cathedral, operates a government-funded social-services network that would be the envy of many municipal governments. The church's 30,000-sq.-ft. social-services center houses a city-funded walk-in clinic and federal Head Start classrooms at street level. On the center's second floor are a city-sponsored prenatal-counseling program for teen mothers, a state-sponsored housing and community-renewal program and offices for the federal Women, Infants...
...Thai occupation after 1431 but still the chief symbol of Cambodian identity, one of the largest archaeological sites in the world, with its colonnades and giant water reservoirs; its huge, impassive stone faces split by tree roots; its temple mountains and crumbling pine-cone spires. Spreading over some 150 sq. mi., it has excited dithyrambs from visitors ever since the French started going there in the 19th century. "I looked up at those towers rising above me, overgrown with greenery," wrote the novelist Pierre Loti in 1912, "and I suddenly shivered with fear as I saw a giant frozen smile...
...mood in town (pop. 22,176) holds as much superstition as celebration. Stuart Orem manages the 142,000-sq.-ft. Wal-Mart on the city's vast, booming commercial strip, built 18 months ago on what was once a lovely cornfield. His office is lined with computers that every day spit out new evidence about a windfall he doesn't quite believe in. "I don't think it's hit this area yet," he says of the economic boom, one day after his sales of patio furniture jumped 100% over the same day last year. The next morning, Charles...
...Besides, property values are rising from the ashes of the '80s bust, and rents are going up too. Biggs believes REITs will return 12% over the next 12 months. Steve Hash, an analyst at Lehman Bros., notes that profit from office rentals in Los Angeles is about $12 per sq. ft. It will go to $17 before any serious building begins. In the last cycle, the figure went to $30 before the market became saturated and rents slumped, taking property values down with them. The time to start worrying about REITs is when a new development boom begins, probably years...
Build it, and divinity will come. That's the hope of the Trinity Foundation, which is trying to erect the Templar, a pyramid of pink granite and obsidian with a 500-sq.-ft. base. It does not call itself a religion, but Trinity has certainly mapped out the hereafter. Communicating through the movement's founder, Norma Milanovich, the space being Kuthumi says that the Templar will transform Earth into a star and transport us to the divine realm of the Fifth Dimension...