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...last year, and are expected to rise still higher this year. Condominium apartments are by far the most popular type of new building; for prices ranging from $12,000 to $125,000, owners often get such extras as pools, saunas and tennis courts. One of the thickest concentrations of condominiums is in Dade County, which includes Miami and Key Biscayne, vacation home of the nation's No. 1 tourist, but they have also spread fast in central Florida and many other areas...
...built mainly by 19th century European merchants. It has become-in perhaps too many ways-China's New York. It is the nation's largest city (10 million people) and the busiest port in the Communist world, with China's most extensive industry and, consequently, its thickest smog. It also has one of China's largest slums. The hunger and diseases that used to snuff out the lives of thousands of infants annually during the 1930s have gone. But so have the sin and the aura of intrigue and the giddy opulence. The once-imposing semicircle...
...leaded paint peelings. Concentrations of only .8 parts per million can cause illness. Children are especially susceptible to lead poisoning because their toxicity level is only .6 p.p.m. Thus far, concentrations of .25 p.p.m. have been found in some residents of vehicle-clogged cities, where airborne lead is thickest. In New York City, a campaign is under way to reduce lead levels in the air by having cabs and city-owned cars switch to unleaded fuel...
...first it's hard, boring work cutting cane. Grab a long, thin stalk with your gloved left hand, chop it in the middle with your machete, snip off the leaves at the top, then bend down and separate the lower half of the cane (where the plant is thickest and there's the most sugar) from the soft earth with a few short flicks of the wrist. Make sure your machete is free of dirt and go to the next stalk...
...foreground, weary pikemen trudge downhill with their discouraged hounds. One man carries a dead fox, symbolically, perhaps. The rebel emblem was a foxtail. But then again, fox pelts are thickest and glossiest in winter; that is the time to take them, hunters say. In the middle distance, a house burns out. Neighbors come running with buckets and ladders, trying to help. However, the whole earth is cold, like a dead body in its winding sheet of snow. The water mill hangs stiff with icicles. The rivers wait, as if struck by some icy thought. A woman with fagots...