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Frank Eugene Corder seemed to know exactly how he wanted to die. Sometime before midnight on Sept. 11, he stole a single-engine plane from an airport north of Baltimore headed south to Washington, flew over the National Zoological Park and down to the Mall, probably using the Washington Monument as a beacon. As he neared the famed obelisk, he banked a tight U-turn over the Ellipse, came in low over the White House South Lawn, clipped a hedge, skidded across the green lawn that girds the South Portico and crashed into a wall two stories below the presidential...
English and Romance Languages and Literatures are the two largest departments housed in the buildings. Like major department stores in a mall, they will "anchor" the two sites...
Airlines have begun to cater specifically to the itinerant bargain hunters. Between October and March, Northwest Airlines offered a "Shop Till You Drop" tour that flew Britons and Japanese to the Mall of America in Bloomington, ) Minnesota, a 4.2 million-sq.-ft. behemoth with 420 stores. On the plan for the Britons, single-minded consumers boarded a plane in London late Friday afternoon, got to Minneapolis Saturday morning, shopped all day and arrived back in London early Sunday. "We compared a dozen items -- perfumes, blue jeans, fancy stationery items like Montblanc pens -- bought at the Mall of America to what...
...Sawgrass Mills near Fort Lauderdale, Florida, which at 2.2 million sq. ft. claims to be "the world's largest outlet mall," a third of the 17.5 million annual visitors are foreign tourists. On a typical summer day 13 busloads arrive, spending an average of $200 to $300 a person in as little as 90 minutes. Tours are met by trilingual greeters who hand out shopping bags. The mall provides a foreign-currency exchange counter for anyone who needs more money fast. Says Jay Santos, vice president of ACC Tours, which shepherds 100,000 international visitors a year: "We have...
...original were $18; this time they were $135 and had to be purchased in pairs. In 1969 there weren't even official T shirts; in 1994 there will be an official CD-ROM. The Eco-Village, ostensibly devoted to educating the public about the environment, resembled a strip mall where you could buy clothes, camping gear and even Woodstock air ($2 a bottle). The promoters will reap an estimated $5 million to $8 million from pay-per-view fees: the concert was broadcast in 27 countries...