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...town much of the day; by early afternoon the only sound on the main boulevard is the flapping of plastic sheets that cover shop windows shattered by artillery rounds. But when dusk closes in, fighters and young girls venture out to meet at a small park, whispering beneath the pine trees festooned with white paper death notices hung where friends might see them...
...Table after table in the cafeteria burned, and rows of children's wooden bunk beds upstairs, as the flames spread faster, through the attic that ( ran the length of the building like a wind tunnel. It burned fast because it was built on the cheap, a tar-paper, yellow-pine and plasterboard crematorium...
...plans for the Mirage in Las Vegas. To build the 3,000-room hotel, he pushed the company's total 1990 debt load to more than $1 billion. He spend $45 million to build a golf course exclusively for high rollers that he lined with 21,000 pine trees trucked in from California and Arizona. The risk paid off: in 1991, the Mirage's second year, operating cash flow hit $201 million, a record for a single casino...
...Gunn's work was no secret in the circuit he traveled -- a pine-forested area radiating north, east and west from the Florida panhandle -- and it made him both notorious and revered. Antiabortion groups harassed him, listing his itinerary, phone numbers and addresses and issuing WANTED posters bearing his name or photograph or both. One of them concluded, "To defenseless unborn babies, Gunn is heavily armed and very dangerous...
...every bit the target of a heavy shelling after a twister roared through it. The storm, unleashing winds of more than 200 m.p.h., tossed one trailer 150 yds., wrapped another's heavy steel frame around a tree trunk like a coat hanger, lodged an empty refrigerator high in a pine tree and left the forest strung with the sad confetti of broken lives: blankets, clothes and magazines. Said one Vietnam vet as he surveyed the site: "This looks like Hamburger Hill...