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...here, in fields of dandelions next to wooden buildings with peeling paint, even the lawnmowers don't seem to make any noise. And the click of a camera shutter can attract attention...
...several competing cities. In 1991, Minnesota offered Northwest Airlines $840 million in assorted goodies for the privilege of hosting a giant aircraft maintenance center. Ypsilante, Mich. earned the dubious distinction of snagging a GM plant at the cost of $1.5 billion in incentives, only to see GM subsequently shutter the plant and shift production to Arlington, Tex., which offered a fresh round of relocation incentives...
Another retread from past U.S. foreign adventures is Henry Womack, who helped oversee construction of the base that the Reagan Administration-back ed contras used to stage attacks against the Sandinista government in Nicaragua. By day Womack tends his southern Florida storm-shutter business. At night he hunkers down in an eight-bedroom yellow stucco house in South Miami with Francois' sister Elsie and her husband Charles Joseph. Their aim is to assist Haiti's military in presenting a "fresh face" to the world. Womack says he offers Haiti's rulers "a white man's thinking." Joseph has paid visits...
...worked at IBM, said he had seen photos of cross-legged men floating in the air--levitating. He said he believes the photos are created by meditation advocates who put a cross-legged person on a mattress. As the person bounces higher and higher on the mattress, a high-shutter speed photo captures the action, making the person appear suspended in the air. Atwood also said he recollected reading an article in Time Magazine that described the effect...
...missing a step, the intrepid photographer staked out the men's room until Ryan exited, at which point he snapped the shutter and made a new, invaluable addition to the Crimson's photo files. The picture is shone above...