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Battlement Mesa, the company town that was to be the hub of the new industry, still exists, but not for oil-shale workers. It has become a retirement community. Against a backdrop of majestic mountains, retirees pump iron, hike scenic trails, swim and play golf. There's no trace of the Exxon project that was supposed to be shale oil's breakthrough. All vestiges of the mine and outbuildings are gone. The road leading to the plant site is still there, but it abruptly ends at the top of the hill. The land has been reclaimed and today looks much...
...that Aiken did not actually win American Idol. Thirty-four million people watched last May as Ruben Studdard edged out Aiken by less than 1% of the votes. Studdard was the more polished singer, but Aiken was the better narrative. Week to week, with the help of a hair iron and contact lenses, he was transformed from a complete geek who sang show tunes into a better-looking geek who sang pop ballads. After the Idol finale, interest in Aiken surged, and his startlingly sincere first single, This Is the Night, trounced Studdard's to become the best-selling single...
...larger South African drama deflated, Coetzee seemed to turn to his private life for inspiration. His son died in a mysterious fall; he wrote The Master of Petersburg, a novel about a father similarly stricken. His ex-wife died of cancer, and he produced Age of Iron, a work that contains some of the most harrowing descriptions of pain ever written. In the mid-'90s, he came forth with autobiographical accounts of his youth, and then came Disgrace (1999), the tale of an arrogant white academic hounded out of his job by the gender police, humiliated by criminals and relegated...
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...declared it his own state - complete with its own anthem. "State Gebauer" became an "island of free expression" populated with whimsical figures of swimmers, gnomes and cows. And being a largely abstract concept, the sculptor's retreat escaped the attention of the authorities. Many unofficial artists working behind the Iron Curtain created private cocoons where they could work unhindered, though this meant their work was rarely seen. Now a new museum in Prague seeks to rescue them from obscurity. "This generation has been skipped over and forgotten," says Meda Mladek, a Czech-American art collector who founded the Museum Kampa...