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...Some are evidently needy, others perhaps not. All sit patiently in a musty anteroom of an old gray school-house on Denver's shabby south side. The wait is long, sometimes half a day or more, for the chance to enter one of the pastel-colored, 6-ft.-sq. cubicles and apply for food stamps. Those who qualify take their ID cards and wait in line at a cashier's window for coupons redeemable for anywhere from $10 to several hundred dollars' worth of groceries...
...most visible Canadian investors are real estate companies. Toronto's Olympia & York Developments Ltd. owns 11 million sq. ft. of prime office space in Manhattan and recently won a competition to develop 6 million sq. ft. more in New York's Battery Park City. Another Toronto company, Cadillac Fairview, is now the largest single developer of luxury condominiums in the Miami area, having close to $300 million worth of housing under construction...
...instantaneous vibration" that struck Belgian Artist Jean Verame, 44, in the Sinai Desert. The Sinai's relief is crazy," he says, "its density is fabulous." He simply had to paint it. But not on canvas. The artist's plan was to decorate the desert -specifically, the 5-sq.-mi. Plateau of Hallaoui-with patterns and fields of cobalt blue paint. "Blue," he explains, "because this color does not exist on the earth's surface." Despite impressive credentials -Verame had already festooned a dried riverbed in France and a mile of the Corsican coast-it took the artist...
...that mix country music with disco. In April a Fort Worth entrepreneur plans to open a three-acre C&W supersaloon described as the world's largest nightclub. It will be called Billy Bob's Texas and have 42 bar stations on four levels, two 7,000-sq.-ft. dance floors, and ten live bulls, which only professional rodeo cowboys will be allowed to ride. For other patrons there will be calf-roping contests...
Despos' problem right now is that he urgently needs more working space. Clothes waiting to be altered lie in heaps on the floor, and the work flow is poor because his 1,400-sq.-ft. shop is so cramped...