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...Tierney, Hammer and Chen agree that being victims of crime has taken some sense of security out of the ivory tower. Massachusetts' 10 Most Violent Cities Most Violent Crime Reported 1994-95 Chris R. Goldsmith Crimson Fall River 568 Cambridge 796 New Bedford 1,147 Lawrence 1,172 Brockton 1,227 Lynn 1,412 Lowell 1,528 Worcester 1,775 Springfield 2,307 Boston 9,569 Source: Associated Press
...Shot, the Stratosphere's piece de resistance, you are harnessed into one of 16 seats facing in all four directions and mounted on the building's ultimate tower. Without warning you are shot up, as if sprung from a killer rubber band, 160 ft. into the sky at 45 m.p.h. and four Gs. And then, dear Lord!, you slam back down at negative gravity, your body pleading to soar through the restraints. Up and down you go a few more times in decreasing extremes. The whole thing, which lasts 31 sec., is a great, bearable kick. It's like experiencing...
...cruised along in the town's minor leagues with Vegas World until 1989, when the Sahara, just a block away, quadrupled the size of its sign and moved it closer to Stupak's casino, tempting his customers away. Stupak wanted the one-upman's revenge. The Eiffel Tower, Seattle's Space Needle, the towers in Tokyo and Sydney, Australia, were all profitmaking monuments, he noted. A similar structure--but bigger, of course--would be his answer to modern Vegas' edifice complex and its Hey-Why-Not School of Architecture, with pyramids, guitars and the New York City skyline inspiring...
...flaws in the geometry; a wooden scaffolding caught fire; confidence in a money-raising public offering collapsed. Stupak had to sell all but 17% of his ownership, and the project was taken over by the Minnesota-based Grand Casinos firm. Locals dubbed the enterprise the Stupak Stump and the Tower of Bobel. But say this about the Stratosphere: the man did it. In time it may fly or fall; today it is the instant dominant Vegas symbol. The Stratosphere could be Stupak's Tinker Toy gift to the gaming industry, or it could be the ultimate sardonic gesture--a giant...
...negotiating the cable-strewn floors. In Roxy's Diner, a '50s-style eatery, punk and geek waiters were studiously spinning yo-yos and polishing their patois ("neat," "ugly stick," "chick" and the immortal "your mother"). Says the Stratosphere's president David Wirshing: "No one's ever built a tower in conjunction with a facility like this before. There'll be all sorts of unknowns, and a few inevitable hitches." He might take heart from the notoriously ragged 1993 opening weekend for the Luxor down the street and the early glitches at the MGM Grand that Barbra Streisand enumerated onstage when...