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...region's political map seems almost giddily drawn to avoid grappling with any such problems. Community boundaries dart haphazardly: they were often drawn by developers who wanted to run their towns as well as build them. The 2,042-sq.-mi. area of Dade County, for example, is now governed by 27 separate and often rival municipal governments. Dade County attempted to draw some order out of its political chaos in 1959 by combining such common services as transportation and sewer systems. But the 27 towns still raise their own taxes, pass their own zoning ordinances and run their...
Between the calorie counting and aerobic breathing, the yoga and the yogurt, the rolfing and the rope jumping, exercised Americans will admire their improved chassis in 300 million sq. ft. of new mirrors. The reflections of these new Adams and Eves glowing radiantly through the steam rising from the hot tubs are provocative indeed. They portend even more than they posture...
...heathens," members of the Islamic Guards quickly went after the protesters. But the Guards were trapped by leftist Mujahedin-e Khalq guerrillas who had positioned themselves on rooftops along the streets. The government conceded that 36 Islamic Guards were killed in the ensuing battle, which raged over a 6-sq.-mi. area for more than seven hours...
...turtle comes equipped with a standard-issue carapace Is there some naturally ordained allotment for human sheltt In 1920 the Russian "sanitary housing norm" decreed that each citizen was entitled to 100 sq. ft. of living space, an expansive ideal seldom achieved. Americans occupy at least 140 sq ft on average; by most of the world's standards, they live like caliphs The current constriction of their housing may make some Americans claustrophobic, but cross-cultural comparison might also remind them to be grateful for what they have It might encourage them, as well, to shift their perspectives outward...
Shenzhen is the heart of a thriving new 127-sq.-mi. Special Economic Zone where Western capitalists can do business. In addition to Shenzhen, there are two other free-enterprise zones on the southeastern coast, Shantou and Huli. Of all the economic reforms started by China in the post-Mao period, none flirts more intimately with Western-style capitalism than the SEZs...