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...stippled with unsold condominium apartments -almost 18,000 in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale area alone. Demand for rental housing is at an alltime high, but construction has virtually ceased. Many cities are packed with vast, vacant building sites like the one cleared two years ago in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park for its still-unbuilt 39-story "Twin Oaks" residential complex. Some 900 construction firms went bankrupt from January through July. Many of them were small local outfits, but the failures also include a dozen publicly held firms that do business on a national scale...
...Blahs, many thousands of Americans are finding a new way to assuage money worries, insomnia, angst, neuroticism and neglect of liver and lungs. Their new-found route to tranquillity is yoga. Long regarded as a freak clique, yoga practitioners in virtually every community in the country, from suburb to ghetto, Y.M.C.A.s to churches and American Legion halls, are discovering that yoga, shorn of incantatory mysticism, is a highly practical way to relax tensions, tone up the physique, reduce the embonpoint and turn off tranquilizers, cholesterol-laden food, even smoking and drinking. In short, yoga, no longer an ogre, is rapidly...
...death every 19 hours, and it is rising steadily. That chilling statistic is only one sign of Argentina's turmoil. Late last week two members of one of Argentina's richest families, Juan and Jorge Born, were kidnaped by left-wing guerrillas in the Buenos Aires suburb of La Lucila while a trainload of commuters looked on in horror...
...including many senior officials in the Foreign Ministry, scientific institutes and universities. Many of the painters would like to make that market public. Last week 20 Moscow artists tried to bring abstract art out of the ideological closet by mounting an open-air exhibit in Moscow's Smenovskoye suburb. The result was a violent confrontation between art and politics in which art literally took a beating...
...Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz in a Jewish suburb of Baltimore, and a large part of the audience consisted of middle-aged, middle class businessmen whose backgrounds could not have differed much from that of Cohen. It seemed a bit strange to me when these men chuckled at the rapid accumulation of bones by the capitalist whiz kid in The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz. How could people who agree with Cohen's statement, and who have similar experiences, laugh at a teenage boy who cheats, lies, threatens, and eventually forges checks in an effort to be a success in the business...