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...like the Paris metro," says MatherHouse Co-Master Leigh G. Hafrey '73. "The morecars you add, the more people ride," he quips...
...America's detonating metro regions were the result of population growth alone, sprawl would be a problem without a solution. But they are equally the result of political decisions and economic incentives that lure people ever farther from center cities. For decades, federal highway subsidies have paid for the roads to those far-flung malls and tract houses. Then there are local zoning rules that require large building lots, ensuring more sprawl. Many localities fiercely resist denser housing because it brings in more people but less property-tax revenue. Zoning rules commonly forbid any mix of homes and shops, which...
...nationwide crime wave that has victimized more than 600 agencies, netting perhaps 500,000 tickets worth hundreds of millions of dollars. And the crimes are continuing. A Marietta, Ga., agency was recently hit twice for 6,000 tickets. "It's organized crime, and it's big," says former Miami Metro Dade detective Gary Yallelus, who along with his partner, John Little, first identified the ring. In 1996 and '97 they arrested 10 people in connection with the thefts, including several of the Colombians and Rafael Horacio Fernandez, 51, a resident alien from Argentina living in San Bernardino, Calif...
...name of his latest CD, "Brooklyn Basement Blues," may smack of high school amateurism, but Poppa Chubby is truly cosmopolitan. A blues guitarist extraordinaire, Poppa toured Europe earlier this year (and his posters dotted the Paris metro). See him this weekend. Johnny D's, 17 Hancock St., Somerville...
...frequency of deodorant application, underwear changing and hand washing that I would just as soon not go into in detail--had been put together by a French newspaper, Le Figaro. I could have added that hard on the heels of the Times story I saw a Reuters item about Metro officials having spent five years developing a new fragrance designed to dress up the aroma of Paris subway stations...