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...Defense Department has seized upon the gulf crisis as an excuse to expand the 1,000-sq.-mi. Fort Irwin, a high-tech desert-training facility in Southern California, by some 390 sq. mi. Environmentalists pledge to stall any such action...
Just outside Tokyo 300,000 people troop through Japan's Disneyland each week, while 20 miles outside Paris a new city is rising on 8 sq. mi. of formerly vacant land. Once Euro Disney Resort opens for business in 1992, forget the Eiffel Tower, the Swiss Alps and the Sistine Chapel: it is expected to be the biggest tourist attraction in all of Europe. In Brazil as many as 70% of the songs played on the radio each night are in English. In Bombay's thriving theater district, Neil Simon's plays are among the most popular. Last spring...
Step into Florida's Sawgrass Mills, the world's biggest outlet-and-discount mall. Situated 15 miles west of Fort Lauderdale, it boasts 2.2 million sq. ft. of name-brand shopping at no-name prices. The parking lot alone covers 170 acres. Two miles of storefronts, 150 in all, include outlets for such status labels as Ann Taylor, Maidenform, Van Heusen, American Tourister and Athlete's Foot, plus such familiar discount stores as Brands Mart and Marshalls...
...scouts are from Troop 501 in La Canada-Flintridge, Calif., a suburb of Los Angeles. They've begun the first day of a trek at Philmont Scout Ranch, the 215-sq.-mi. wilderness near Cimarron, N. Mex., that is scouting's premier "high adventure" base. Months of training hikes, equipment checks and dieting for obese adult advisers have preceded this day. The hikers will trudge through dense forests, up and over 10,000-ft. mountain passes, pelted by daily thundershowers. Staff members at backcountry camps are decked out as miners, trappers and other frontier characters to provide history lessons...
...biggest British music import to hit U.S. shores lately is not George Michael's latest album or a new Rolling Stones tour; instead it is 70,000 sq. ft. of retail space. That is the total size of two superstores that Britain's HMV Group Worldwide plans to open in Manhattan this week. The larger of the two will be the biggest music store in the U.S. Fast-growing HMV -- the initials stand for His Master's Voice -- is the largest chain in Britain, and has opened stores in Australia, Canada and Japan. Among its innovations are in-store music...