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Last Thursday morning John and Joy, accompanied by two policemen, sifted through the ashes for vestiges of their once comfortable life. The chimney, built to withstand as well as nurture fire, stood as a charred sentinel above the remains of the living room. Bending down, Joy retrieved two small vases that her six-year-old twins had made in a pottery class with her mother. The tears came quickly as she cradled the pieces of ceramic. "How could this happen?" she asked...
...atmosphere. They use refrigerator-size computers that have less power than the average desktop machine. And they depend on radar equipment that runs on World War II-type vacuum tubes. This creaking system is dangerously prone to breakdowns. In one notorious instance in the winter of 1988, the radar sentinel in North Carolina was out of service for 10 days, during which a batch of tornadoes tore up the state, injuring 157 people, killing four and wreaking $77 million worth of damage...
When word got out that a corporation that earned $703 million in 1989 had appropriated money that could have helped the poor, the public outcry could be heard all the way to Future World. The Orlando Sentinel called Disney the "grinch that stole affordable housing." Disney kept the money, but the controversy forced the company to promise it would not apply for the bonds...
...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 and a journey over a fabricated rainbow. Naturally, there are unbelievers. Says Orlando Sentinel columnist Robert Morris: "Somehow I just can't picture Buster and Betty Lunchbucket of Racine, Wis., along with all the little Lunchbuckets, lining up to get in touch with their inner selves...
...ugly, it's awful, it's appalling," says Sentinel columnist Morris. "You live here every day as a Floridian with a tremendous sense of loss." The former mayor of Orlando, Carl Langford, chose to retire somewhere else. "I spent 30 years of my life trying to get people to move down there, and then they all did," he says from his new home in Maggie Valley...