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2A DETROIT FREE PRESSTUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1994 A place where young readers read, write and yak Movie Line: can 1-900-884- 9337. Use a touch-tone phone and select Option 1. For 85 cents a minute, you can hear stars talk about their latest movies, and you'll have a chance to win two weekly movie passes to Michigan's Star Theatres. financial information or music; see Free Press Plus boxes for audio offerings with stories. Toll-free service from LCI International of Bingham Farms: 1000 Stock Market Report 1001 Money Rates 1002 U.S.

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It gives us both exercise, because when she gets tired I have to take over." GARY S. WOLFSONAssociated Press each Tuesday. Today, walilind it in the section lttyeen Pages 2A and 3A.Pull it ilut'Xut on the dotted line. Fold irpfeces with the color on the (jutSide, and slip one inside the cither' to make your YAK! Forum offers world of news The Detroit Free Press Forum on Compuserve is a pioneer in the delivery of newsworthy video clips. If you're already a CompuServe user, go DETFORUM and see what we mean.

Our libraries teem with clips of new cars in motion, of astronauts walking in space even computer simulations of recent plane crashes. Of course, you also can use the Forum in more conventional ways as a place to read the latest news, see cartoons and photos, and discuss Michigan issues with an international crowd. If you're not a CompuServe member but have a computer and modem, call 1-800-848-8199 and ask for the Free Press representative. Free PressLCI Toll-free Info Line: Call 1-800-975-PLUS anytime. Enter the four-digit codes below for Getting it straight The Free Press corrects all errors of fact.

If you know of an error, please call Anne Musial, reader representative, at 1-313-222-2441 or 1-800-678-7771 anytime. Or write her at 321 W. Lafayette, Detroit 48226. Please include a daytime phone number. The Going Rate chart in Business Monday should have listed the following rates for First of America Bank: 30-year, fixed rate mortgage, 8.63 percent, APR, 8.94; 84-month fixed-rate home improvement loan, 9.25 percent.

Monday coverage of the situation in Haiti and its leader Raoul Cedras should have attributed the quote "I am absolutely convinced that being aware of the preparations of such an overwhelming force made him bunk" to Gen. John Shalikashvili. A Saturday article about TV changes in Detroit should have said Detroit's first black-owned radio station was WCHB-AM. A Friday Business article should have said Lear Seating Corp. bought portions of Ford Motor American seating and trim operations, specifically four cutting-and- sewing operations near Juarez, Mexico, and the U.S.-based seat engineering business in November 1993.

A Friday The Way We Live article about mice should have said a single pair and their descendants can produce .15,000 offspring in a year. The shuttle Discovery did not land on Earth on Tuesday of cloudy weather. will try again today. What do they miss most because he delay? A nice warm shower. i .1 I I l': 53 Oval Office: This is the cice where the president works.

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There is a lot of work and responsibility, too, such as being boss of the state police, state prisons, state parks and about 20,000 state workers. The governor now is John Engler, who is running for a second term of four years. Howard Wolpe is his main opponent in the election. MMM11M SEi iXi'AmaiMSBiEnTJin lUaTi Eva i t'i i lYi-ai 7T in My question for the candidates Is: What did you like best in today's YAK! Call 1-313-223-4YAK (223-4925) today. Age.

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You can join a new club called the Yak Pack. A free Yak Kit for members is available with every new or extended 13- Experts sound alarm on cities' boom PROJECTIONS Here's what the World Bank says the Top 10 metropolitan areas by population will be in the year 2000 (in millions): 'if t. 4 fx iff in mi 1. Mexico City 2. Sao Paulo 3.

Tokyo 4. Shanghai 5. New York 6. Calcutta 7. Bombay 8.

Beijing 9. Los Angeles 10. Jakarta 25.6 22.1 19.0 17.0 16.8 15.7 15.4 14.0 13.9 13.7 creasing share of the gross domestic product. "People want jobs and higher incomes," Steer said. "It just seems to be a fact of modernization." The growth is accompanied by the health hazard of urban pollution unclean water and air, inadequate sanitation, drainage and solid-waste disposal and poor industrial waste management.

Only 40 percent of urban homes in developed nations are connected to sewers, the study said, and more than 90 percent of wastewater is discharged without treatment. This year, the bank lent $1.4 billion to fund a "brown agenda" that seeks solutions to environmental problems affecting cities. "Protecting the rain forest is important because it will preserve natural resources for the next generation, but cleaning up cities will help hundreds of millions of people right now," said World Bank President Lewis BY SONYA ROSS Associated Press Washington The world's big cities are growing by a million people a week and will hold more than half the Earth's population within a decade, according to a World Bank report issued Monday. The report came as urban leaders gathered in Washington to find ways to improve outstripped health services before environmental risks worsen, "We could be overwhelmed," said Andrew Steer, director of the World Hank's environment department. The study found urban populations growing by 3.8 percent a year, and projected that by 2020, 3.6 billion people will inhabit urban areas, with about three billion will remain in rural In 1990, there were 1.4 billion people living in the world's urban areas, compared with about 2.7 billion In rural areas.

"In simple terms, the urban tion is growing at a rate of one million million people; 13 of them, the study said, will be in Asia. Most of this growth is from within, rather than from large-scale migration from rural areas, the study said. But, Steer added, significant migration has occurred as cities account for an in Please join us for a special look at fall featuring the collections of Ellen Tracy, Ralph Lauren, and Eileen Fisher. Fall fashions will be informally modeled and designer representatives will be available to assist with your selections. You can also register to win $250 toward a purchase from our participating designers Detroit tfm J)rrso I Til KNIGHT A Knight Ridaer newspaper 1 pie per week, as 11 anotner iew Orleans grew from scratch every days," the study.

said. By 2000, there will be 391 cities villi more than one million residents, from 288 in 1990. Of those, 26 will be megacities, with more than 10 jews honor man ho saved them TOKYO Several dozen Jews who were among thousands saved from the Holocaust by a Japanese diplomat arrived in Tokyo on Monday to honor ii memory of the man who helped them escape. Chiune Sugihara issued 2,000 Japa-n; se visas to Polish Jews in 1940 when he was an official at the Japanese You are invited to the Oval Room at: Twelve Oaks Friday, September 23, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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Call 222-6500 lor convenient home delivery. W. i nsulate in Lithuania former capital, Kaunas. The Jews had fled the German invasion of Poland a year earlier but were stranded in neighboring Lithuania with no Western nation willing to grant them visas. Sugihara, who signed the visas against the orders of his government, as dismissed from the foreign service when he returned to Tokyo in 1945.

ile died in 1986. He has been dubbed "Japan's S' liindler" in comparison to Oskar Sehindler, the German businessman who saved hundreds of Polish Jews jri the chambers and became the ubjpt1 of ahugely successful film. Designer representatives include: Ellen Tracy: Nancy Giacomin Ralph Lauren: Karen Emde Eileen Fisher: Ray Landin HUDSON'S "Hudson's employees and their families are ineligible to register..

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