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...time when every place from Dallas to Park City, Utah, is primed to put a salesman on a plane to snag business, many companies try to search quietly for new homes. When Salomon Brothers decided to move its processing division, the firm conducted secret scouting missions in 72 cities before making a peep. Sure enough, when word got out in January that the company had narrowed its choices to Tampa and Columbus, Salomon was besieged with promoters. Tampa offered Super Bowl tickets; Columbus brandished seats for the Final Four. Says Salomon managing director Marc Sternfeld: "I heard from every personality...
Another developer has picked Orlando for a project on an even higher plane: a 480-acre theme park called Vedaland, scheduled to open in 1993. The Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the saffron-robed Indian guru who brought transcendental meditation to the world (and to the Beatles), has teamed up with magician Doug Henning to produce a spiritual equivalent of gourmet TV dinners, a high-tech, fakery-filled playground, ostensibly to help put man in harmony with nature. The 38 attractions will include a building that appears to levitate above a pond, a chariot ride inside the "molecular structure" of a rose...
Less than a week after Saddam Hussein's tanks smashed into Kuwait last August, Dan Quayle found himself on a plane to Bogota, Colombia. Initially Quayle had not been keen about making the trip. Jetting off to South America while war clouds gathered in the Persian Gulf was not the sort of assignment that would show that the Vice President was "in the loop" at the White House. But George Bush insisted that his Vice President go. There was more to the trip than representing the U.S. at the inauguration of the new Colombian President...
...subject is timeless. His April of cyclones, "blind forms of being," was this year's last day of April for Bangladesh. Twenty- foot walls of water. Demonic winds of crushing force. The horror left behind: 125,000 lives lost, and still counting. A world used to human-scale catastrophes -- plane crashes, say, that kill a few hundred at most -- cannot absorb the biblical dooms that visit Bangladesh. Straddling the conjoined mouths of the Ganges and Brahmaputra, two of the Indian subcontinent's mightiest rivers, the country is regularly drowned by flood crests surging downstream or scourged by whirlwinds from...
Many operagoers think that the jet plane has done more to ravel the thread of lovely sound than any other factor. A popular artist can sing in Brussels on Monday, Paris on Tuesday and Chicago on Thursday, and by the time Chicago rolls around, audiences often feel they are presented with a raspy voice and an unfocused characterization. Many veterans monitor their travel schedules as closely as their repertory. Rysanek arrives in a city two weeks before she is scheduled to sing. Kraus warns that if you sing in two cities on successive days, "your subconscious is working in both...