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...main reason for housing inflation is that land prices have multiplied six times in the past 20 years and now account for an unprecedented 25% of builders' costs. In some regions the spiral appears to be accelerating. Two examples: in Miami's Bade County, a basic 100-ft. by 75-ft. lot that sold for $3,500 a decade ago now commands $17,500. The price has risen $2,000 just since May, and Douglas Wiles, a Miami housing economist, predicts a further $4,000 increase by year's end. In the northern Virginia suburbs outside Washington, D.C., Builder Edward...
...geography adds to the vulnerability of major power lines, New York is not alone. In the peninsular state of Florida, all the lines to power pools elsewhere run up and down in a fairly narrow corridor. Last May 2.5 million residents in five Florida counties (including Miami's Bade County) were without power for approximately four hours after the electric system short-circuited...
...case involved the 1970 punishment of a Bade County, Florida junior high school student named James Ingraham, then age 14. His offense: lingering too long in the auditorium after a school assembly. As the boy told it, two school officials held him down while Principal Willie J. Wright whacked him more than 20 times with a 2-ft.-long wooden paddle. The resulting blood clots on his buttocks kept him in bed for a week. The boy's mother filed suit against the principal and other school officials. The plaintiffs charged that many students had been paddled-for offenses...
...tremendous, all old union songs. Harlan County, USA stands as a testimonial to a people and a struggle that the American dream somehow forgot; Kopple's film stands as a great documentary. It inruriates without becoming polemic, capturing a simple courage that brings admiration. This is a film bade by a leftist, and come from a leftist perspective, but it's not merely that. It's a stroy that catches you up because it's warm and richly human--the people of Harlan aren't so different from people anywhere, and their story is as sadly cathartic as Greek tragedy
...with the Swedes and the Irish taken care of, the Crimson bade adieu to home cooking and said shalom to Minnesota and Wisconsin...