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Erieview, the city's downtown core, is mottled with make-do parking lots; even the three-year-old federal building, a 30-story tower overlooking the polluted surf of Lake Erie, is already scabrous with peeling plastic. The city is having to pay $50,000 a month in interest costs on loans for its Erieview project alone. Last January, in exasperation, HUD Secretary Robert Weaver cut off $10 million in renewal funds...
...classroom, teachers try to make the subject matter as specific as possible-especially in the elementary grades, where they commonly assign children to model the male and female genitals in clay or make drawings of them and their workings. Some instructors use plastic manikins from which the exterior genitals can be removed to reveal the apparatus within. One sex educator in Detroit demonstrates the stretching of the uterus with a rubber ball inside a sock, and the growth of the human embryo by soaking beans in water until they swell and sprout. Teachers get much help from movies in schools...
Mutual Education. On file in Saint-Cloud are 930,000 identity cards, 60,000 sets of fingerprints and 5,000 photos of "specialized criminals" classified according to year of birth, height and facial measurements under a telltale system that sometimes even plastic surgery cannot fool. Another ingenious file contains perforated cards that, superimposed, tell at a glance how many persons from different categories (men, women, Dominicans, Dahomeyans) have committed similar major crimes-especially useful when clues are nil. It works so well that Interpol does not even feel any need for computers. According to one official: "Once we get someone...
Wrote one North Dakota teen: "After your article about plastic surgery, I've been doing even more wishful thinking about a nose job." She was 14. A Las Vegas 13-year-old scrawled: "I wonder where I could get in on the action." Some are just refreshingly silly: "My problem is my big teeth. They stick out like a sore nose." "Enclosed is a picture of me. My friends think I'm ugly -and I'm not sure." "It's Halloween, and I feel like a witch. Can you help...
...gardeners a full week to water it all. Five bubble-shaped, glass-enclosed elevators streak up and down a huge column at one side of the courtyard; they are programmed, says Portman, to create "kinetic architecture." Water from a 70-ft. fountain cascades down along strips of clear plastic...