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With the formation of the Conservation District, the ratio of floor area to potential building square footage for the Square has been frozen at a minimum of three. In other words, even if the Square is downzoned, the ratio will not be reduced below this limit...
...American widow with six daughters will have a tough time trying to stay in interior China. Already, the local authorities, after sending the deputy mayor to offer condolences, are making life somewhat difficult. Foreigners visiting the Morrisons are carefully vetted, apparently to limit publicity about the murder, which can only embarrass China as it tries to polish its international image to help its bid to bring the Olympics to Beijing in 2008. "We like her very much, but the Christian woman should return to America," says a local policeman. For now, Valori sits quietly in the tiny apartment she wants...
...small. Aetna, the nation's largest health-insurance provider, told its Bluebell, Pa., employees that they'll have to start paying for coffee and tea. And for the stressed-out folks at Xerox, fresh bagels no longer grace morning meetings. A Xerox manager asked his group to limit, of all things, the number of copies by using both sides of the paper. Which suggests that along with the losers in the current slowdown, there may be one unexpected winner--trees...
TUNING OUT Aggressive behavior can actually be "unlearned," a Stanford University study finds, if children limit their use of TV, videos and electronic games. After a six-month experiment, researchers report that children who reduced their TV time to seven hours a week and stuck to less-violent videos and games were half as likely as their peers to engage in bellicose playground behavior like taunting and teasing. The most combative kids at the start of the study showed the most behavioral improvement...
...parties we work with a list so everyone at the party is either a member or on the list," says a final club member in Kirkland House. "We know to limit the people in attendance to those who we know and trust to not create problems...