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...boom had its origins in a state law that placed Indianapolis and most of surrounding Marion County under a unified government in January 1970. This quadrupled the city's land area to 379 sq. mi. and boosted the tax base from fewer than half a million to three-quarters of a million residents. Most significantly, the law encouraged more direct cooperation between the government and the private sector...
Seen from the air, El Salvador is a stunning landscape of dormant volcanoes and twisting river gorges. That mountainous beauty, covering roughly three-quarters of the countryside, is also a national curse. With the highest population density in Central America (601 per sq. mi.), similar to that of India, El Salvador is a land that is ideal for guerrilla warfare but pitifully inadequate for the agricultural needs of its people. Salvadoran geography creates some harsh problems: Who owns the country's meager agricultural resources? How should they be put to use? These are among the most important issues...
...exempt institution that, in the view of Architecture Critic Ada Louise Huxtable, proved "the most artful real estate deal ever devised." Reckoning in the six floors that constitute the base of the tower but belong to the museum, the exhibition space has now more than doubled, from 40,500 sq. ft. in the old building to 87,500 sq. ft. in the new. Circulation, conservation, storage, office space: all needed improvement and most have got it, at a total project cost of about $55 million. The appointed architect was Cesar Pelli, dean of the School of Architecture at Yale. Construction...
...northern Nicaragua, the war simmered on. Units of the contra army known as the Nicaraguan Democratic Force (F.D.N.) continued to launch raids from their Honduran base camps into Sandinista territory. The extent of contra successes remained difficult to determine. The rebels claim to control nearly 6,000 sq. mi. of Nicaraguan territory, with strong support from the peasantry, and to operate freely in an additional 2,700-sq.mi. area. But one of the F.D.N.'s leaders, Edgar Chamorro Coronel, declared to TIME last week that "to achieve a victory we would need not 8,000 fighters...
...from a year ago, an affordable starter house may turn out to be little larger than a roomy cabin. In Hudson, N.H., eager buyers have been plunking down $60,000 for two-bedroom town-house units that Builder John Stabile has packed into 1,050 sq. ft., or about half the size of a singles tennis court. On the outskirts of Southern California's San Fernando Valley, $90,000 can buy a Kaufman & Broad two-bedroom, 1,000-sq.-ft. single-family home. For the Los Angeles area, that price is cheap...