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...rate (79%). More than 18 million passengers arrive at Orlando International Airport every year, three times the number entering 10 years ago -- and, if the planners are right, half the number who will alight three years from now. Cities from Rio to Frankfurt have direct flights to the Disney doorstep, and airport officials are already preparing for a day in the next century when tourists from San Francisco will hop across the continent in 39 commuting minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Orlando, Florida: Fantasy's Reality | 5/27/1991 | See Source »

...capital, it is not yet considered by Washington insiders to be in the same must-read category as its three major national competitors. "It's a presence," says Bill Monroe, editor of the Washington Journalism Review. "But it's in the wings because it's not available at the doorstep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hello, Sweetheart! Get Me Remake! | 4/15/1991 | See Source »

...ingrained the mentality that a stolen bike will bring an officer to your doorstep quickly," says Aurora division chief Ronald Sloan. "That has to change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back to The Beat | 4/1/1991 | See Source »

...began questioning Trepal. "Somebody wanted them to move out," he told police. "That was the reason they were poisoned." Next he began planning for his favorite recreation, the annual Mensa murder weekend, when the geniuses gather to solve their perfect fantasy crime. "When a death threat appears on the doorstep," he wrote in a booklet for the event, "prudent people throw out all their food and watch what they eat." An undercover agent, planted in Mensa to befriend Trepal and learn his secrets, ultimately found the evidence against him: a small vial in the garage containing traces of thallium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Murders They Wrote | 4/1/1991 | See Source »

...will he? I mean, I've taken the service of garbage collection for granted. I set a package of garbage on my doorstep, and when I wake in the morning, it's gone. I've always been obsessive about emptying the trash. My roommates stuff the can full, mash it down with their feet and balance extra waste on top of the heap. Garbage, though, is my sensitive spot, and I'm usually the one who makes sure that the room is devoid of it. It's always gone in the morning...

Author: By Joshua W. Shenk, | Title: An Environmentalist's Angst | 3/20/1991 | See Source »

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