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...rich Caspian agricultural provinces of Zanjan and Gilan cover 20,000 sq. mi. In one minute the earthquake, which measured as high as 7.7 on the Richter scale, turned scores of towns into wastelands of flattened houses and apartment buildings. Entire villages were reduced to rubble, their inhabitants buried beneath mountains of debris. Television film showed young men frantically trying to free victims from slides of dirt and the remains of homes. Women in black chadors clustered in town squares, fearful of returning home or lacking a home to return to. Children wept among the dead and the injured. Amid...
...rivals. Bloods and Crips break down into small neighborhood sets, and it is not uncommon for one Crip group to fight another Crip group up the street, for Blood to fight Blood. There were 462 gang-related murders in 1988, 107 of them in South Central, a 43-sq.-mi. stretch of ghetto with a population of 500,000. Though the murder rate does not approach the carnage of Beirut or El Salvador on a per capita basis, it is higher than that of Belfast or Burma. The U.S. Army has begun sending doctors to train in the emergency room...
Expo planners envision a vast, ultramodern "workshop of ideas" spread out over the entire 7,090-sq.-mi. Veneto region. The "ideas network" would be centered in the 80-acre Arsenale, the old shipbuilding yards of the Venetian navy. Along the edge of the lagoon, from the polluted petrochemical shores of Marghera to Marco Polo airport, a "Riviera of culture and technology" would be tied together by an aboveground metro. Planners promise that the construction would create 5,000 jobs, as well as a sophisticated electronics- and-communicati ons system to serve the city in the next century...
...Fish and Wildlife Service that Malathion-base spray could put the 3-in.-long nocturnal rodent at risk (and the state in violation of the Federal Endangered Species Act), officials agreed to avoid aerial spraying of the area where the kangaroo rat is found, a 5-sq.-mi. region of Riverside County 60 miles southeast of Los Angeles. While they bear no malice toward the rats, anti-sprayers are astounded by the decision. The government, said Adelaide Nimitz, president of Families Opposed to Chemical Urban Spraying, would rather "protect the rats and spray people...
...Savings. CenTrust is the thrift that it's estimated will cost taxpayers $2 billion; Paul is the man who bought a $13 million Rubens for the bank but hung it in his home for safekeeping. And what a home! I was only allowed to see the guesthouse -- 8,200 sq. ft. -- which the real estate agent thought was unoccupied. Instead, we found toddlers downstairs with a nanny and, upstairs, a freshly unmade bed with a large gun tossed casually in the middle. ("This is the bedroom; this is the bathroom; this is the gun.") If CenTrust's mortgage on this...