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...face fixed in a bronze smile, Chiang sits on a throne framed with famous quotations from his fabled life and surveys his memorial, his city, his island nation. His throne is on a great stone block; the block is in a large rectangular building with a purple pagoda-styled tile roof. The building sits atop a huge white-stone pyramid full of Chiang memorabilia--his letters, his glasses, his clothing, his medals. There are no servants for the afterlife; only a military honor guard to protect the bronze...
...down prices, one major builder in Gwinnett County, Ga., 20 miles north of Atlanta, sells $70,000 houses with up to one-third of the interior space unfinished. Owners can complete the rooms later, when they have the money. Bathroom and kitchen floors are covered with vinyl instead of tile, and closets have sliding doors made out of a light plastic material rather than wood. Boston Builder Anthony Lapuma has turned out the first half dozen of what he calls "workingman's specials." The Cape Cod-style houses sell for $49,900, but the second floor, which...
...thicker than the ash from Mount St. Helens. It fills the air. It smells of nothing organic but manure, yet even that smell is not precise; it is tinged with an odor at once dead and sweet. Only fragments in the rubble-wire nettings, a square of bathroom tile ?suggest that life ever existed in that place. Beyond the dust lawns, sudden green weeds have begun a crazy garden, as if the wilderness had decided to reclaim the neighborhood...
Beyond the personal grief, back pain exacts a staggering social cost. In the U.S., 93 million workdays are lost each year be cause of back problems. In Sweden, where sick-pay benefits are liberal, backaches are the single largest cause of worker absenteeism. Americans, in their often fu tile quest for relief, now spend $5 billion a year for tests and treatment by a dizzying array of back specialists, including orthopedists, osteopaths, physical therapists and chiropractors, to say nothing of self-styled gurus who promote every man ner of cure. Billions more are paid out in disability claims, lawsuit awards...
...than two tedious months in the home of Canadian diplomats, reading whatever they could get their hands on. They played so much Scrabble, as Anders later explained, that "some of us could identify the letter on the front by the shape of the grain on the back of the tile." Said Taylor at a press conference in Ottawa: "I'd nominate any one of them for the world Scrabble championship. They are also probably the six best-read Foreign Service officers." Some of the six spent the time at Taylor's residence, others at the home of Roger...