Word: colorado
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Twelve states rank malls among their top three tourist attractions, including Minnesota (Mall of America), Virginia (Potomac Mills) and Colorado (Denver's Cherry Creek Mall). Yet by most estimates, fewer than 30 U.S. cities are big enough to support a mega-shopping center, and even those probably don't have room for more than one. Perhaps that's why Mills has announced an alliance with New York City-based Tishman Speyer Properties to build malls in Germany, Britain, Japan and Brazil. Today America; tomorrow the world...
...those who survived attacks by the Unabomber, the prospect of a trial evokes feelings ranging from dread to relief. University of Colorado engineering professor John Hauser, who was an Air Force pilot and aspiring astronaut when he was injured in a May 1985 bombing at Berkeley, says the arrest of a suspect and the halt to the bombings meant more to him than the trial. "If having the trial over means that I could fly jets again and pursue those paths, I'd say, 'Hey, great! Cool!'" he told TIME. "But it's not going to bring my hand back...
...Colorado at Detroit...
Buffalo at Colorado...
...soaring oratory and federal meddling, all set against a background of corruption that makes the contemporary political scene seem virginal by comparison. The liveliest section describes the kidnapping of "Big Bill" Haywood and other union leaders by Pinkerton detective James McParland. Unable to extradite his prey legally from their Colorado headquarters, McParland abducted them, bundled them onto a train and ordered the tracks cleared all the way to Idaho. Such episodes of swashbuckling adventure bring out the crack reporter in Lukas as well as the showman, suggesting that what he relished about his story wasn't its intricate political subtleties...