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While the well-to-do worry about quality of life, low- and middle-income residents voice fears of being pushed out of boomtowns as the increased demand for housing sends prices to the sky. Growth critics imagine the West turning into a string of Vail-like resorts, where the rich play and others stay away. Denver's Roman Catholic Archbishop J. Francis Stafford wrote in a pastoral letter last fall, "We risk creating a theme park 'alternate reality' for those who have the money to purchase entrance and around them sprawls a growing buffer zone of the working poor...
While the eyes are being ravished, so are the ears. Conductor Jane Glover leads a scintillating performance by unusually nimble-fingered string players and by singers of passionate virtuosity--notably countertenor David Daniels in the title role and soprano Dana Hanchard as his reluctant Turkish prize. What seems at first arcane and distant becomes hypnotically human--opera on a level of taste, imagination and musicality that would do any of the world's most celebrated opera houses proud...
...first day of peace talks concluded, TIME's Edward Barnes reports from Zagreb that the rebel Republic of Serb Krajina has agreed to all the demands of the Croatian government. Butthe Croatian government, flush from a string of recent battlefield victories, declined the offer, saying they want the Serbs to accept full government authority. Barnes reports that thousands of Croat troops are massed near the Krajina border. "The Croatian military has been itching totake back the land seized by the Serbs three years ago. But the Croatian government will at least postpone their long-awaited assault until they can find...
...computers and information technology are in vogue. Hence, a recent string of films--Disclosure, Johnny Mnemonic, the soon-to-be-released Virtuosity and currently...
...genes pack such power? The DNA in all genes carries instructions for assembling proteins out of chemical building blocks called amino acids. What sets the proteins made by Hox genes apart is the biochemical motif known as a homeobox, a stylized string of 60 amino acids that enables Hox proteins to stick to DNA like strips of molecular Velcro and, in the process, activate still other genes. Hundreds of genes belong to the extended homeobox family, but those that are also homoeotic -- associated with changes in body parts -- are the most important. Though they are few in number...