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There's a slow leak in Jacksonville, and soon it could be as it was during Desert Storm in 1991: a ghost town. Already a flower shop has closed, a car shop has gone under, and a big grocery chain has decided not to build. But for the locals, it feels a little different this time around. A couple of cupfuls short of patriotism. And urgency. And sense. "There's something unpredictable about this war," says Beeda Ruth Wensil, who runs Saigon Sam's, a huge military-surplus store. "The boys don't know where they're gonna...
...Dispatches From the Event: Day 3: Living to 1000? Day 2: No Easy Answers Live from the Future of Life The Ghost of Old Doc Ricketts
MEANWHILE Ghost Busted Every night for three months, just before 2 a.m., a mysterious voice awoke Alfred Mansbridge from his sleep. "I won't take the lift down," intoned the voice. The 69-year-old milkman searched his house for the source - without luck. But instead of turning to exorcists, Mansbridge called in the environmental health experts. What they found under the stairs was no disembodied spirit, but a novelty Spider-Man watch...
...NETHERLANDS Fortuyn Lives The ghost of murdered conservative leader Pim Fortuyn looms large over the run-up to the Netherlands' Jan. 21 general election. In campaigning, many centrist politicians have adopted his controversial positions on issues like immigration, crime and education. Freedom and Democracy Party leader Gerrit Zalm has embraced the notion that the country can no longer take in immigrants: "The Netherlands is full," he now says in his speeches. Social Democrat leader Wouter Bos is doing a more effective Fortuyn impersonation - "Only Dutch to be taught in our schools" - and is leading in the polls. Ironically, Fortuyn...
...Dispatches From the Event: Day 3: Living to 1000? Day 2: No Easy Answers Live from the Future of Life The Ghost of Old Doc Ricketts