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...grenade came sailing out of the back of a truck as it sped past a police parade ground in Soweto, the huge black township outside Johannesburg. The blast killed one black trainee and wounded 64 others. Six hours later, a bomb exploded under a parked car in the white suburb of Mayfair, shattering windows and starting a fire...
...basement so she would have a private study. The Sanchez family too has made a success of the arrangement. Says Lucy Sanchez: "Family is family, and we believe and act on that." But for others, the setup proves too difficult. Michelle Del Turco, 24, of Englewood, Colo., a Denver suburb, has been home three times -- and left three times. "What I considered a social drink, my dad considered an alcohol problem," she explains. "He never liked anyone I dated, so I either had to sneak around or meet them at friends' houses...
...those sleek design achievements of the 1950s that can make people nostalgic for tackiness. Badanes even travels with a plastic pink flamingo that he props outside the door wherever he parks. Most recently, the trailer -- and flamingo -- was parked in a wooded lot of a wealthy northern Virginia suburb while serving as home for Badanes, his itinerant opera-singing girlfriend Donna Walter, and their dog Floyd Bite (after Frank Lloyd Wright). But if a tacky trailer in an expensive Colonial suburb seems a little out of place to you, consider what Badanes and his three colleagues, architect-builders who call...
Minnesota: Bloomington Project. A $47 million replacement of a bridge over the Minnesota River will link the area south of the river with the Minneapolis suburb of Bloomington. The present structure, a temporary span with a six-year anticipated life, was put up in 1978. It has been underwater three times after storms. Highway-bill contribution: $16 million...
Though whites are excitedly gearing up for national elections on May 6, the occasion has prompted only yawns from the black majority of South Africans. Since they are not allowed to vote, the Sowetan, the country's largest black daily, published in the Johannesburg suburb of Soweto, decided to hold an election of its own. Several times a week it carries a printed ballot asking readers to list their top ten candidates to lead the country...