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...Phoenix, whose population soared from 1.5 million to 2.1 million during the past 10 years, Los Angeles is regularly held up as a disfiguring pox to be avoided at all costs. Two fatal shootings on local freeways last month were quickly characterized by commuters as "L.A.-style freeway killings...
...Nobody in his right mind stands up and says, 'I'm the pro-growth candidate,' even when he is," notes San Diego campaign consultant Thomas Shepard. Voters themselves are of two minds about development. "We're schizophrenic about growth," admits Peggy Rubach, the mayor of Mesa, Ariz., a Phoenix suburb whose population has nearly doubled, to 290,000, in the past 10 years. "We want the jobs, but we don't want the problems that come with them...
...ship, capable of handling 5,600 passengers. The floating city, like Epcot, would mix pleasure and pedagogy: alongside the three hotel towers, casinos and villages aboard the nearly quarter-mile-long vessel would be a 100,000-volume library and a giant conference center. At sea or in port, Phoenix World City would be a "place where the best of a civilization converges and cross-fertilizes to produce a fuller way of life," according to a florid brochure...
...Phoenix at Utah (Utah leads...
...Phoenix at Utah (series tied...