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Back in the neighborhood, in the little concrete triangle parks where locals gather to rest swollen feet and tell lies, and talk about the days before pink hair and nose rings, residents were split as to whether the Chin is faking his near coma. But they agreed that wearing a bathrobe on the street pushes neither the fashion nor the mental-health envelope in Greenwich Village. There is universal love for Gigante's late mother Yolanda. "She was cooking, cooking, all the time cooking," says a neighbor. "She'd give me a hug and talk in Italian...
...alternative is to take a lesson from Disney and an army of developers, who are betting fortunes on the idea that everyone from young families to retirees wants to eat in a theme restaurant and live in a Frank Capra set, where the paint never peels and families gather after dinner to play Parcheesi. And so contractors are carving a 430-acre town out of cornfields north of Washington, replete with sidewalks and gazebos and town squares and the transplanted totems of an easier age. The deep American nostalgia for rural life may owe more to fantasy than memory...
...dotted with eerie bunkerlike structures with names like "U.S. Navy Centroid Facility." From the south, near the infamous secret air base known as Area 51, talk-radio guru Art Bell spreads news of UFOs and sunken continents. To the northwest, in the Black Rock Desert, hippies and cyberpunks gather by the thousands for their annual Burning Man Festival, an orgy of punk rock, spontaneous gunplay and off-road motor sports...
...timed things right. But those blessings now carry burdens. The townsfolk have gone from acquiring wealth to managing it--knowing when to cut the right deal and let other ones go by. At Bunting's English Diner, where Mayor Jim Mathias and three of his predecessors gather early to sort through the day's problems, they like to recall how simple it used to be. Back in the '30s, when their fathers came to build the WPA beach-front barriers, vacant lots were auctioned for $50 apiece. "Anyone who bought land and held onto it made money," says Fish Powell...
...Zhao has espoused a capitalistic cottage industry. She has organized 24 women into a sweater "factory" created to bring in some disposable income. When they are free from their farm chores, the women gather in two low buildings they have constructed to house knitting machines purchased with their pooled cash. Working from orders and samples provided by a state trading company, they turn out as many pullovers and cardigans and vests as they can manage. Each woman averages 300 to 400 yuan ($36 to $48) a month. "We are the envy of the village with that income," boasts Zhao...