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...government has not grown too big in cities like Cambridge. It makes little sense to hold every city in the Commonwealth to the same spending standard. As Sullivan points out, if Cambridge bordered a wealthy suburb, and each had $100 million worth of property, each would be able to spend the same amount of money. Cambridge, however, has to provide subsidized housing, bus kids to integrate its schools, run low-cost hospitals, and fight high crime rates, while the suburb faces no crises much larger than where to build the Olympic-size swimming pool...
Surrounded by model manicured lawns in the Washington suburb of Columbia, Md., one lot has gone back to nature. As a result it has become a home for bluebirds, cardinals, butterflies, deer, foxes, raccoons, chipmunks and turtles. Between Fire Station 8 and a bank in a San Francisco warehouse area, a green grove of trees and shrubs attracts finches, hawks, hummingbirds and others seldom seen in the city's industrial neighborhood. Ten trees and a variety of bushes growing on a 30-ft. by 40-ft. backyard in Brooklyn have attracted 105 varieties of birds, including crow, red-bellied...
...VINCENNES and NO TO DISMANTLING OUR ZOO. The latest watchwords were responses to the sudden resignation of Vincennes' beleaguered president, Pierre Merlin, 42, and the renewed determination of the French government to cut down the university's size by moving it to the working-class Paris suburb of Saint-Denis...
...gallon of gas, a figure which would encourage wasteful drivers to consider available substitutes or contingencies, such as mass transit or carpooling. In addition, the 50-50 plan might have the indirect effect of revitalizing urban areas by presenting a disincentive to forsake the city for the suburb, thus increasing urban tax bases...
...women in business and sales." Or, as Diamond concludes, "Jimmy Carter is like thousands of other middle-aged men of middling stature in authority in our society. He is the man next door--if you live in the nicest neighborhood in a nice small town or a 'good' suburb." Only iron gates and political smarts separate Carter from 100,000 other people. And with the president ahead in the polls, this is nothing but depressing news...