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...that hardly fazes this hard-charging chopper rider, who says of his quest to rebuild AT&T, "We've just begun to assemble the components." The giant that almost slept through the '90s has awakened in time to make a grab for control of the digital home...
Another Mills Corp. venture is Sawgrass Mills, 26 miles from Miami International Airport, which boasts annual sales of $450 per sq. ft., almost twice the U.S. average. Two Palm Beach, Fla., women recently made headlines by choppering in for a binge. Now plans are being drawn up for a "Shopper Chopper" to ferry patrons from Miami and Bal Harbour. Nearly half the 19 million people who showed up at Sawgrass last year were foreigners: a Saudi princess arrived with two limos trailed by rental trucks to transport the day's haul...
That was all fine. Braving the schoolyard each morning was another matter. While everyone else stood around discussing the latest episode of Chopper One or Charlie's Angels, I was Lost in Space...
Being quite a provincial foreigner, however, he does not reckon with the power of American pragmatism. Having eluded the invaders, the President (who, we are informed, won a Congressional Medal of Honor piloting a rescue chopper in Vietnam) is stalking the surprisingly capacious byways of the plane, armed mainly with native wit and a "Don't tread on me" philosophy. There is good--sometimes witty--suspense in Marshall's single-handed efforts to coordinate a rescue effort by his Washington staff with his own attempts to set his people free using whatever modest tools--a table knife, a cell phone...
...sheer voyeuristic pleasure of tracking law enforcement in action, local TV news has nothing on the Internet. Take the bloody, botched Los Angeles robbery attempt that recently turned into a real-life Hollywood chase scene. Instead of just glancing at the familiar chopper footage on the tube, many crime seekers surfed over to PoliceScanner.com a Website with real-time audio from police radio, including the Dallas and L.A. cops. The result: a sort of gruesome copspeak play-by-play to accompany the TV spectacle. Even the site's more mundane offerings--including lost kittens and traffic stops--attract some...