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...dreams come true for would-be fighter aces who take to the California skies in mock air combat. The "kills" are simulated, but the chills are for real...
...elemental components. Yet, as if to confound those who would pigeonhole him as a weltschmerzy ascetic, Rossi took the opposite tack for a family crypt completed in 1987. The little chapel has a sweet brick exterior, with oddly incomplete cornice and a carved-wood interior of pediments, columns and mock windows...
...million mock-up of small-town America opened in 1987, after the FBI decided its fledgling agents needed more true-to-life experience before they % dealt with dangerous criminals. Says the make-believe town's make-believe mayor, Jim Pledger, a 24-year FBI veteran: "Crime doesn't unfold in a classroom. We realized we could no longer limit ourselves to a square brick building...
...huge billboard at the town limit warns that DISPLAY OF WEAPONS, FIRING OF BLANK AMMUNITION AND ARRESTS MAY OCCUR. IF CHALLENGED, PLEASE FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS. HAVE A NICE DAY! And true to its admonition, mock bank robberies, kidnapings and drug busts take place like clockwork. Mayor Pledger brags that Hogan's Alley is the most crime-ridden town in the world. Says Pledger: "The next crime wave is usually just around the corner. Fortunately for us, though, we've got a 100% success rate at catching criminals...
Nine weeks into the course, trainees practice arresting an armed felon. They then investigate an assault on a judge and conduct a court-authorized wiretap. Their final lessons are held in a mock courtroom, where they face actors who pose as a tough team of defense lawyers. "We really let the sharks go after them there," says Pledger. "Having to eat your paperwork and watch the criminals go free teaches you to do everything by the book...