Manhattan Rents Surge Amid Tight Market Crunch
The Upper East and West Sides show average doorman studio rents at $1,400 monthly, up 26 percent since 1992 while non doorman units average $955, 15 percent higher than 1992. Brokers report record demand and scarce supply as Wall Street growth draws high salary workers to peak prices.
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New York
Upper West Side
Manhattan
Nancy Packes
Feathered Nest Inc
Feathered Nest
Upper East Side
Wall Street
Fat substitute Z-trim promises zero side effects and calories
Peoria Illinois AP reports a new fat substitute Z-trim made from insoluble fiber from oats corn or soybeans aims to trim fat and calories in foods such as cheese chocolate and pancakes. Developed by USDA researchers with Mountain Lake Manufacturing the product may reach store shelves next year with GAWS status and no FDA approval required.
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U.S. Agriculture Department
Center For Science In the Public Interest
Washington, D.C
Agriculture Department
Ms. Wootan
Inglett
Food and Drug Administration
FDA
Judith Foulke
Department
Washington
Mountain Lake Manufacturing
Mountain Lake
Minn
Oatrim
Dancer James Saunders Dies After 30-Foot Fall in Cologne
American dancer James Saunders, 50, died after falling from a 30 foot staircase railing during a solo on the Ludwig Museum steps in Cologne. The handstand stunt went wrong when he again sprang onto the railing, as over 500 spectators watched. doctors failed to revive him.
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Cologne
Germany
James Saunders
Ludwig Museum
11 killed in tuna ship mutiny near Tokyo Bay
A tuna vessel drifted 330 miles south of Tokyo Bay as mutineers killed the South Korean captain and 10 crew members before being overpowered. Japan's coast guard awaits foreign officials to arrange arrests while interviewing survivors aboard the 294 ton ship. The mutineers remain confined in a cabin.
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Tokyo
Japanese
Coast Guard
Tomohiro Imami
Japan
Maritime Safety Agency
Tokyo Bay
Salt Lake City area chemical weapons destruction halted after leak
The Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility halted the destruction of 14,000 tons of Army chemical agents after traces of herve gas leaked in a sealed incinerator area. Spokesman Jon Pettebone said there was never any danger to workers or the public. Burning of M55 rockets began Thursday and stopped Saturday when the leak was found near air filter banks.
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Salt Lake City
Jon Pettebone
Tooele
Army
Utah
Democrats Contend Over Welfare Reform At Chicago Convention
Delegates voice unhappiness with Clinton welfare law as Democratic events feature speaker Edward James Olmos and Christopher Reeve. In 1968 protests outside Chicago clashed with police. this year protests are calmer but dissent remains. Dodd, D-Conn., opposes the five year benefit cap while urging speakers to oppose the president.
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Bosnia
Edward James Imps
Christopher Reeve
Superman
Chicago
Richard J. Daley
Mr. Daley
Richard M. Daley
Associated Press
Clinton
Dodd
D-Conn
Democratic National Committee
Arafat to visit Israel to push peace talks
President Ezer Weizman agrees to meet Yasser Arafat in what would be the Palestinian leader’s first official visit to Israel. Netanyahu undecided on a meeting. discussions aim to resume stalled peace talks and address Hebron withdrawal and West Bank settlement expansion.
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Israel
Jerusalem
Ezer Weizman
Yasser Arafat
Mr. Arafat
Benjamin Netanyahu
Netanyahu
Shai Barak
West Bank
Weizman
Barak
Saeb Erakat
Associated Press
Israeli TV
Israel Defense
Yitzhak Mordechai
Hebron
Caesarea
Tel Aviv
Leah Rabin
Yitzhak Rabin
Dry Northwest fires burn thousands of acres and threaten towns
Hot dry air fuels wildfires across the West with 150 people evacuated in Washington’s Colville Reservation as two fires scorched about 3 000 acres. A separate 15 000-acre blaze near Bend Oregon destroyed 19 homes and remains a risk amid shifting winds and rugged terrain. Northern California fires near Yosemite and Stanislaus NF burned nearly 30 000 acres, with 21 percent containment and evacuation warnings for Plum Flat and Jawbone, while smaller fires flare in Montana Utah Nevada and Wyoming.
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Sheila Whitelaw
Colville
Washington
Oregon
Bend
California
Yosemite National Park
Stanislaus National Forest
Sierra Nevada
Plum Flat
Jawbone
Montana
Utah
Nevada
Wyoming
Gas prices fall slowly after May peak across nation
Gasoline prices nationwide declined more than a half-cent per gallon over the past two weeks, with the Lundberg Survey showing an average pump price of 1.2982 per gallon for all grades and taxes. Analyst Trilby Lundberg says higher oil prices are slowing the cuts, noting regular unleaded at self serve averaged 1.2307.
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Los Angeles
Lundberg
Trilby Lundberg
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