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...Disneyland. Hollywood Boulevard is popular for hanging out, usually at the corner of Cherokee, while Sunset Strip features straight prostitution and Santa Monica Boulevard specializes in the gay sex trade. Abandoned buildings serve as "squats," the makeshift homes inhabited by as many as several dozen youths. Entombed by the thick plywood nailed to the windows and doors, the youths live with drugs, rats and human waste...
...windows shut, the car had floated slowly out into the lake as it filled with water, then flipped over and settled into the silt. When the search team finally dragged the car out, veteran diver Steve Morrow stood on the banks and cried. "There's no way to be thick skinned about something like this," he says. "When it's an accidental death you can deal with it a little better, but knowing that someone could deliberately . . ." his voice trails off. When he got home that night, Morrow says, he crawled into bed with his little boy. "I just...
Paul Silver, architect; Rikers Island renovator: "Grow very thick trees like on Tara or Twelve Oaks so as not to destroy the aesthetic of the environment but to provide effective barriers against the threat...
...sudden devaluation of their own currencies. In some cases, it is also the only way to do business. Taxi drivers in Almaty, the capital of Kazakhstan, prefer their fares in dollars, as do some restaurants in Kiev and St. Petersburg. Says a Russian importer of IBM computers, pulling a thick wad of $50 bills from his pocket: "What do I need rubles for? I want real money...
...until Oct. 29, when the brooding Colorado Springs upholsterer Francisco Martin Duran, 26, pulled a Chinese-made SKS semiautomatic assault weapon from under his coat and shot 27 rounds of ammunition in short bursts across the north side of the building. Five bullets pocked the mansion's 4-ft.-thick sandstone wall, and three shattered a window and chipped the stone of the press-briefing room near the West Wing. Several bullets burrowed into trees. President Clinton, who was inside the White House watching a football game, was probably the safest person in the area, given the bulletproof glass...