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...surging, and a mood of optimism prevails as the Continent's businessmen discover a dynamism that many thought had long deserted the Old World. Look at London's vast Docklands, where a reborn city with elegant housing and sleek office buildings is rising from what was once a wasteland of derelict wharves and warehouses, the relics of Britain's mighty trading empire of yesteryear. Boats rush commuters up the Thames to the City, London's financial heartland and center of the world's freewheeling foreign-exchange market...
...added antismog costs to relocate -- to be in excess of 30,000. "This area used to be called the promised land," complained Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael Antonovich, one of two members of the district management board who voted against passage. "Now it's going to be a wasteland...
...current global warming trends continue," I intone ominously, "then soon the average daily temperature in Boston will be hot enough to make Back Bay a spring break paradise. On the flip side, Duke University will sit in a scorched wasteland and Columbia will be lost forever in a tropical rainforest. Speaking of science, Louis Agassiz, B. F. Skinner...
...however, an apt analogy. The film is basically a drag, and not helped by Christopher Cain's stand-around direction. And one's thirst for the clear, cool taste of traditional narrative -- motivated movement, defined antagonists, building suspense -- soon reaches maddening levels. A grownup could die in this wasteland...
...these breakthroughs seem to defy the stereotype of the East bloc as a technological wasteland, it may be because Communist economies are extraordinarily uneven. "There are peaks of genuine achievement and troughs of appalling backwardness," observes Julian Cooper, a lecturer in Soviet studies at England's University of Birmingham. "The Soviets are often quite good at basic research. The problem is getting that technology into production...