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...doubt, is the Mall of America in Minneapolis, Minn. It's a capitalistic biosphere, a place where, under one roof, a store called Candy Candy! does battle with not only Candyland and Candy Cravings but also Candy Is Dandy. Nearly 40% of the shoppers who visit its 4.2 million sq. ft. are tourists willing to travel hundreds of miles to pay tribute to a giant replica of the shopping centers they have in their hometowns. The Mall of America is the Disney World of shopping...
...scarcely a building intact?just broken walls, smashed stonework, and ground littered with spent shell casings and twisted metal. Allah Mahmad exaggerates a bit when he says his men are holding the 40th Division base. For the past two years his platoon has been hanging on to about 100 sq m of ground inside the gate. Two small buildings still have roofs and their dark, fetid rooms serve as living quarters. There are a couple of underground bunkers. And through the shredded remains of some trees is what was once the base's cinema hall...
...cost of $22 million, the Science Center will soon undergo a 32,000-sq. foot addition and renovation. The plans have been public...
...Votanikos, the thriving trend-setting part of Athens. Within minutes, you'll be stunned by the sight of Athinais, an architectural oasis designed by one of Richard Branson's favorite visionaries, Tom Gazetas. Formerly a silk factory sandwiched between a cluster of auto-repair shops, the 6,500-sq-m stone Athinais in now home to the first museum of ancient Cypriot art in Greece, with one of the rarest collections of its kind in the world...
...scene, and Bryant heard a "tremendous, thunderous noise." A little later, choppers were spotted near the Oconee nuclear plant near Clemson, 90 miles away. Then, shortly after midnight, several more were reported flying over the Savannah River Site, a Department of Energy facility that occupies more than 360 sq. mi. along the border of South Carolina and Georgia. Nuclear waste is disposed of there, and weapons are restocked with tritium. Authorities closed down a highway that runs through the base, until the FBI gave the all clear. But Bryant and his frightened neighbors still don't know what happened that...