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...Francisco federal office, Mayne has also provided his Cooper Union building with elevators that don't stop on every floor. His hope is that this will encourage people to take the stairs for at least a floor to increase their chances of bumping into each other. (For the handicapped a conventional elevator hits every floor.) And anyway, compared to a standard elevator, the stairs are a joyride...
ASIM WARIS, a student in Pakistan, after a suicide attack at a mosque in Rawalpindi killed his friend and at least 39 other people...
...stipulated that everything was to be left to him. It emerged in court that Chan had told Wang to bury large amounts of cash and precious stones at up to 80 secret sites around Hong Kong, in supposedly propitious feng shui rituals, and that Wang had paid him at least $250 million for this and similar pieces of advice. Not content with such a spectacular windfall, the caddish Chan - the kind of parvenu, incidentally, who names his eldest son Wealthee - considers himself entitled the rest of her estate, even though he would be depriving a charity of its use, should...
Saving Our Forests Re "Keep the Jungle Alive" [Nov. 30]: Centuries ago Lord Buddha exhorted every individual to plant and nurture at least five trees in one's lifetime. However, governments should focus on systematic and sustainable tree plantation and conservation programs. Varieties that are indigenous, fruit bearing, oxygen enriching and medicinal should be planted instead of disorganized planting drives that just inflate numbers. A case in point is the mass planting of a eucalyptus species in India a couple of decades ago that turned out to be disastrous for water levels in some areas. Properly done, the tree bank...
...take one if offered. Those ranks surely swell in a deep recession or during a time of economic turmoil that destroys entire job categories (like autoworker). The government's statisticians are aware of this, and since the 1970s the BLS has published broader measures of unemployment that include at least some of these people. In 1994 the broadest measure - which counts as unemployed those who have looked for work in the past year but not the past four weeks, plus part-time workers who would rather be working full time - was dubbed U-6 unemployment. During this recession...