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...decade ago, nearly all the residents along the Love Canal in Niagara Falls abandoned the neighborhood after the discovery that thousands of buried barrels of toxic waste had been leaking into basements and backyards. Their homes were bought by the Government, and 200 or so were torn down. Now, after $275 million for relocation and cleanup, the Environmental Protection Agency says the area is again safe. Next month 236 remaining houses are scheduled to go on sale...
...vocation on a grand scale of spiritual drama. "I truly think it takes more to keep a good marriage going over a number of years than it does to be a priest," he says. The order itself was the natural choice for a young man who was torn between scholarly interests and an active temperament. Cities, rather than remote monasteries, are Jesuit stamping grounds, and whether as teachers, missionaries or administrators, Jesuits thrive in the secular world...
...revival in the '70s and '80s, when restaurantification became the new fad (and source of higher profits). Old-timers still mourn the fate of the Coupole, a barnlike old brasserie that had served as home to Henry Miller, Lawrence Durrell, Samuel Beckett; it was acquired by a restaurant chain, torn down and rebuilt in 1988 into a sort of yuppie grazing center. More felicitous was the 1986 transformation of the Cafe du Dome, a plain, bare sort of place, where an impoverished writer used to be able to get a saucisse de Toulouse and a plate of mashed potatoes...
After concerts I have frequently been on the verge of collapsing from exhaustion, drenched in sweat, my shirt torn apart. My arms rendered quivering jelly from the abusive fist-pounding they have powered, my back and legs aching from the hours of standing and jumping without reprieve, I long for the relief that skipping classes the next day will bring me. I exit the arena proud of the permanent hearing damage I've sustained, relishing the ringing in my ears for days to come...
Bush has been torn between appeasing Congress and rewarding Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu for Japan's newfound flexibility. Just two months ago, U.S. negotiators came out of trade talks in Tokyo angry and frustrated. But seven hours of meetings between Bush and Kaifu last March in California, more talking time than any previous U.S.-Japan summit, were a watershed. Shortly afterward came a flurry of agreements, including a pact on far-reaching structural reforms. Among other changes, Tokyo promised to ease restrictions on opening large department stores and to impose tougher penalties for protectionist bid-rigging schemes...