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On the other hand, Atlanta has not expanded its city limits in that time. Experts say the comparative popu lation figures are really grist for cock tail parties and Charlotte's boosters. "For those who like bigness, it's bragging rights," said Jim Clay, who teaches geography at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. "It's obviously something the chamber could have fun with," Charlotte Chamber of Commerce Research Di- Win E St I -1 r If" r- r I I ' it- -': i r 1 i here to live? It's a question that sooner or later you have to answer. And GRANVILLE TOWERS is your answer if you want the best student housing in Chapel Hill. , Witn vjKAJN VlLLt I uw lKj; you nave uie convenience of being adjacent to campus and downtown, so there's no need to commute everyday. All your food is prepared for you. You can Dine Anytime" even on weekends. Plus, someone comes each week to straighten your room and clean your bathroom. 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That's 4,847 more people than live in Georgia's largest city. "When you're comparing size, to say Charlotte is larger than Atlanta is a type of distortion because of the artificial boundaries of cities," Clay said Wednesday. "Atlanta is a much more compact city than Charlotte,'" he said. Atlanta is surrounded by "20 or 30" suburbs, each with substantial popula tion density, Clay said. Charlotte, on the other hand, is bordered in large part by rural areas. Several smaller cities, including Gastonia, Concord and Monroe, are located 10 or more miles from Charlotte's city limits. When they are included, the metropolitan area's population swells to about 1 .3 million people, Clay said. Bill Hill of the census bureau said Charlotte appears to be different from some larger cities like Atlanta, Chicago and New York because people who are moving in are buying homes inside the city limits. According to the bureau's statistics, Atlanta has lost more than 100,000 residents in the past 20 years. "My impression is that Charlotte is still a middle-class city and a lot of people live and work in Charlotte," Hill said. Gainesville murders terrify city From Associated Press reports GAINESVILLE, Fla. Scores of police took up the hunt in this terrified college town Wednesday for the "ma niac on the loose" who killed five stu dents, mutilating three. Students armed themselves or fled to their parents. "We slept with steak knives last night," said a tearful Stacie Green, a 1 9-year-old junior from Jacksonville. "I had to call my mom. This is unreal." The victims four women and a man attending either the University of Florida or Santa Fe Community College were stabbed in three attacks at off campus apartments since Sunday. Po lice said three victims were mutilated. A newspaper said one was decapitated. The killer broke into the apartments, which are within about two miles of each other, through unlocked doors or windows or by forcing a sliding-glass door, Police Chief Wayland Clifton said Wednesday. "At first that was not real clear in our cases because we thought he might be gaining entry by disguising himself in some way and winning the confidence of the occupants," he said. "We do not now think that that happened in any of the three cases." The FBI has prepared a psychologi cal profile of the killer but authorities do not plan to make it public, Clifton said. Police checked out several reports of suspicious people around the city overnight but made no arrests, Alachua County sheriff's Lt. Sadie Darnell said this morning. "It's clear this part of the country has some maniac on the loose," said Uni versity of Florida President John Lombardi. "It reminds us of a natural catastrophe. The killer is selecting vic tims by criteria that are not clear to us." Gov. Bob Martinez ordered in doz ens of state troopers and other law en forcement agents. Out-of-state experts on serial killers were called in. Local police tripled their patrols. "You'll see more police coverage than you ' ve ever seen in any city you ' ve ever lived in," Clifton said. The buildup was scant comfort for the thousands of students living off campus in the town of 90,000, where the slayings have stirred memories of serial killer Ted Bundy. He died in the electric chair last year after murdering two Florida State University sorority sisters in Tallahassee in a 1 978 rampage. Hundreds of students bolted their doors, fled to emergency shelters, went home to their parents or demanded de tails on the slayings and how to protect themselves. Many armed themselves with pistols, stun guns and Mace. "My father bought me a gun," said a junior from Tallahassee who refused to give her name. "I'll stay for a while, but I'm thinking of dropping out for a se mester." Said one Miami father who flew into Gainesville to pick up his daughter: "She's going to go back with Mace and knowing how to shoot a gun." Student Mark Andreozzi said he and a roommate armed themselves when a carpet cleaner turned up unexpectedly Tuesday. "I had an ax and he had a bat. We're going to get guns after this," Andreozzi said. The university offered lodging for students afraid to return to off-campus apartments. Fraternity and sorority houses, churches and community groups and faculty members also offered to put students up.
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