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Slesin and three assistants publish Microwave News out of a three-room Manhattan apartment that used to be his home. In addition to major reports on the hazards of electric blankets, microwave ovens and medical imaging systems, a typical 16-page issue will summarize the latest health studies, monitor ongoing litigation and track various government activities, like this week's congressional hearings on the status of federal research efforts. Subscribers include utilities and communications companies and officials in some 30 government agencies...
...practice the good works he preached, Ritter responded with a colorful act of muscular Christianity: he paid $50 to a couple of toughs to scare drug dealers into vacating their apartments. He used the space to house homeless children. Later he opened a shelter for runaways in a three-room hovel on East Seventh Street and solicited money to help the hundreds of teenagers who flocked to the shelter: drug addicts, prostitutes or simply abandoned, lonely adolescents with no place...
Ivlev, who often wears imported jeans and Adidas sneakers, has richly furnished the three-room apartment he shares with his wife Tanya and son Sergei. A sleek, ebony-colored bookcase holds a Korean color TV and matching video system. Ivlev says he paid 1,000 rubles ($1,600) for a Panasonic tape deck. "And we have better food because we shop at the open market, where prices are higher," he points out. Is their bank account growing? "It's not our aim to save money," says Tanya. "We want to spend as much...
...week Michael Gipson did not dare to leave the three-room apartment he shared with his girlfriend and their infant son in Rockwell Gardens, the public-housing project with the highest crime rate in Chicago. Gipson rightly feared that the Chicago Housing Authority would throw him out because his name was not on the apartment's lease. His solution: marry his girlfriend and become an official tenant...
...born Dec. 4, 1932, in a modest three-room farmhouse in the tiny rural town of Yangjinmal, ten miles from the industrial city of Taegu. His was an impoverished childhood, made worse by the severity of the Japanese occupation. Every day the young Roh walked five miles to elementary school classes. The future army general liked to play war games, reserving the leading roles for himself...