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During the past five years, banks have rushed to loan billions of dollars to real estate developers in the highly cyclical, boom-bust business of commercial-office-building construction. In doing so, they have helped fuel a building expansion that real estate experts fear may soon collapse...
...late 1960s, predicts that it will be another seven to ten years before researchers find a way to prevent recurrent infections. In the meantime the search is bringing about a medical revolution on the order of the breakthroughs in antibiotics in the 1940s. "Herpes is causing a boom in virology," says Corey. Ironically, victims of many kinds of infectious disease may ultimately benefit. ?By Claudia Wallis. Reported by Christopher Redman/Washington and Dick Thompson/San Francisco
...rips the toilet out of the wall with his bare hands. At his trial, the man explains what happened: "A little energized particle broke off a star in a galaxy somewhere far away and shot down and came through the open window, and when it hit the toilet, BOOM, the whole thing blew up. I could have been killed...
...more movies in the months between Memorial Day and Labor Day, and so Hollywood serves up its big youth-oriented movies in that period. Says Frank Price, president of Columbia Pictures: "Kid pictures always do well in the summer. By fall everyone will wonder, 'What happened to the boom?'' Even in the box-office heat wave, Price must be wondering; his studio's Annie, released May 21, keeps waiting for tomorrow (and tomorrow and tomorrow) to recoup its $50 million investment...
...like Spielberg might hold even his youthful fans if he were to expand his range and make other kinds of movies-as Lucas and John Carpenter and Brian De Palma might. The stray adventurous mogul might be persuaded to finance their ventures into the adult world. And the baby-boom audience, just now approaching early middle age, might follow them. All this could happen tomorrow, and nobody could guarantee that the movie industry would break another box-office record. But the eager faces in those long summer lines would surely have pleasures worth waiting for. -By Richard Corliss. Reported...