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...most densely populated place, yet the demand for space inexorably devours the city's natural resources. In the past quarter-century, Mexico City has lost nearly 75% of its woodland, which reduces the water supply even as more water is needed. The city now pumps 1 billion gal. per day from natural wells (and loses 20% through leaking pipes), but that supply is so inadequate that an elaborate system of canals and pipelines is being built. These will theoretically bring in an extra 200 million gal. per day by the end of the century-when the need will have...
Millionaire ($69.95). Marketed by Blue Chip Software of Woodland Hills, Calif, this program is used in a dozen colleges and high schools to teach students how the stock market works. At the start of each game, a player is given $10,000 and is then required to make investment decisions based on a continuous stream of financial information, such as market changes and other business developments. The player wins by amassing $1 million in theoretical profits; he loses when he goes broke...
Some of the clothes are authentic military issue, sold as surplus or as substandard in some way. But increasingly they consist of commercially made imitations, usually cheaper than the real McCoy but not as durable. Most popular is the so-called Woodland pattern, one of two camouflage styles, along with Desert, currently being worn by U.S. troops in the field. The relatively low price (as little as $13 for a commercial knockoff of four-pocket pants, one of the hottest sellers; from $23 to $30 for the Government version) and the antichic chic have obvious attractions. Robin Figaro...
Quad residents complained that the University policy was inequitable, paying for facilities near the River but not near the Quad. Dr. Woodland J. Hastings, master of North House and a member of the committee, said...
...dance man whose career began at age five in his vaudevillian father's act "Eddie Foy and the Seven Little Foys," and whose marvelously rubbery face and limbs stole shows on Broadway and TV and in the movies, most famously in The Pajama Game; of cancer; in Woodland Hills, Calif...