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While developers have been eager to build upscale offices renting for as much as $50 per sq. ft., the city suffers from a brutal shortage of moderate and low-cost housing. "The big weakness -- and real danger -- to the city is the failure to provide housing," says George Sternlieb, founder of the Center for Urban Policy Research at Rutgers University. Families are forced by costs to move out of New York. Ultimately, says Sternlieb, "they take their jobs with them. Eventually the boss says, 'Why pay premium wages to people to commute? I can put together a better work force...
...meeting with Obando, attended by Wright, and announced an eleven-point cease-fire proposal for Nicaragua. His plan calls for a monthlong cease-fire to take effect on Dec. 5. During the cease-fire, armed contras would be confined to one of three zones spread over a 4,200-sq.-mi. area. All military shipments to the rebels would halt during that period, but supplies of clothes, food and other nonlethal aid could be delivered by neutral international agencies. Under the proposal, any contras who lay down their arms will be granted amnesty and "may join in the political life...
...proposed bill requires developers of community property over 50,000 sq. ft. to allocate proportional space for a child care fund that will find alternative solutions to the what has been labeled a daycare-problem...
...custom software firm, step outside the office, they do not have to contend with jostling lunch crowds or bumper-to-bumper commutes. Instead, the married couple can take quiet strolls through 25 acres of birch and spruce forest. Reason: their office is in their three-bedroom, 3,500-sq.- ft. home on Alaska's remote Kenai peninsula. The nearest neighbor lives half a mile away, and now and then a moose wanders into the yard. "There are days when I wish I had someone to talk to," says Robin, who along with Tom spent eight years working in California...
Actually, the biosphere becomes a problem only when humans get involved. In Brazil the Amazon rain forest, which once covered 3 million sq. mi., has been slashed by an estimated 10% to 15% as the region has been developed for mining and agriculture; an additional 20% has been seriously disturbed. When the downed trees are burned or rot, CO2 and other greenhouse gases are released. The same kind of deforestation in Africa, Indonesia and the Philippines, say experts, may already be helping to make the world warmer...