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Sometimes, numbers can lie...
...measure of our own Puritanism-a Puritanism which suggests that pleasure must lie in the exclusive repository of expensive vacations; that the routine and the familiar must be devoted exclusively to the work-obsessed and fast-food-filled tedium that will make our panic-stricken two weeks of vacation (as compared with Europe's God-given minimum of a month) seem worth the 50 we have sacrificed to make them possible...
...largest massacre, Parenggean, the town's main industry was controlled by the Madurese loggers. To make matters worse, a Forestry Department official says, the Madurese had persisted in logging forest that was sacred to the Dayaks. Now the sawmills in the town are quiet and rows of huge logs lie abandoned...
...Such complications aside, the commissioner says many questions experts would like answered aren't asked: everyone would lie about issues like salaries, housing costs and property values. Getting honest answers to basic questions is hard enough. "How old are you?" a census clerk asked a middle-class woman at the door of her apartment in Hyderabad, central India. "You have no right to ask me my age," she replied, "but I'll tell you nonetheless if you must know. I'm 29." The clerk checked his list: "That's the age we have for you at the last census...
Causing more than 200 injuries and well more than $2 billion in damage, last week's 6.8-magnitude Pacific Northwest earthquake was bad enough--but it wasn't the Big One experts say is still to come. While geologists predict a mega-quake still lies in Seattle's future, they are also looking at a different, equally dangerous big one that is literally looming on the city's horizon: MOUNT RAINIER, the snowcapped volcano that lies 50 miles to the southeast. Though slumbering, Rainier is still active, and last week's quake might have loosened deep rocks that hold molten...