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Despite the lack of federal help, Tsongas said that "there are plenty of happy stories in Massachusetts." He cited Quincy Market and the privately financed redevelopment of aging downtown Lowell as examples of communities doing it on their...
...wondered: Would the city capitulate in time for Mardi Gras Day? One by one the parade dates came around and the floats did not roll. The few that did were forced to move to Kenner or some other shopping-center suburb, since Morial could not guarantee order in the downtown area. As Mardi Gras Day drew nearer, public support for the police waned, down from 67% in a local television poll two weeks ago to 17% last week...
Foreign tourists seeking a quick snack in downtown Seoul are unlikely to find satisfaction in the Korean equivalent of American fast-food chains. These are the 400 eateries specializing in a local delicacy: snake. Among the potables on their bills of fare are bottles of a vodka-like liquor in which live serpents have been put to steep. Another quick pick-me-up is whisky fortified with powdered python. Also on the menu is tang, thick, pale yellow serpent soup. To tempt appetites, restaurateurs feature window displays of writhing snakes in glass bowls...
...make Seoul more attractive to the tourists, the city council has strongly urged owners of snake snack shops to remove their operations from downtown boulevards to the alleys and byways of the Korean capital. Though the shift may reduce the risk of cardiac arrest for visiting herpetophobes, it has annoyed Koreans who regard snakes not only as nourishment for the body but also as a stimulant for the sex drive and a cure for a variety of ills. "I was shocked to hear the news," said one shop owner of the city council's proposal. "The snakes...
...scarce. Even the most vocal Wichita cheerleaders admit to a certain provincialism. Bible Belt conservatives have barred the public sale of liquor by the drink. But the city is on a culture kick. In the past decade, Wichita has opened a flying saucer-shaped civic center that dominates downtown, a 12,200-seat coliseum for conventions and cattle shows, one of the nation's better Indian museums, two art museums, a planetarium, a zoo and three new libraries. That hardly makes the community a rival to, say, Chicago. Yet almost everything is up to date in this Kansas city...