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...Atlanta, along with more than a dozen scientists from the Nuclear Emergency Search Team to deal with atomic terror. Metal-detection equipment is set up outside all venues, and a sophisticated security system matches live handprints to a chip on your ID badge. The Olympic Village is a virtual fortress: on city streets, manhole covers have been welded down to prevent anyone from getting access to power lines...
Hungary grabbed three gold medals thanks to backstroker Krisztina Egerszegi, who now has a career total of five individual golds. The reigning Chinese women, who had swept the 1994 World Championships, won but a single race. And a 26-year-old Dubliner, Michelle Smith, emerged from virtual obscurity to capture three golds--in the 400-m and 200-m individual medleys and the 400-m freestyle--plus a bronze in the 200-m butterfly...
...been stunned by the intensity of anti-American resentment in this part of the world--much of it stemming from uncritical U.S. support of Israel. Over the past 15 years, the U.S. has closed embassies in Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Sudan and Libya. Many remaining diplomatic outposts have turned into virtual fortresses. Part of the U.S. chancellery in Cairo is built to withstand a nuclear blast. In Beirut the ambassador travels in a military convoy protected by a machine-gun turret. "It has been a long time," says a U.S. official, "since I have seen such strong anti-American feelings...
...scene would be repeated the following week in Seattle, with cyberczar Bill Gates adding his virtual glamour, and soon in the most touristed spots in the U.S. and a score of other countries. And Planet Hollywood is far from the only franchise where it will be happening. Motown Cafe, the Official All Star Cafe, Harley Davidson Cafe, Country Star, Rain Forest Cafe and Dive! are all out to sate the public hunger for theme dining. These multimedia spectaculars, designed to stimulate every sensory-nerve end--possibly even the palate--are undergoing a second, rapid phase of growth some 25 years...
These Olympians, or rather their virtual realities, are part of the show in Coca-Cola Olympic City at Centennial Olympic Park, the not-yet-completed plaza that the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games (A.C.O.G.) hopes will be the meeting place for what one official calls "the largest peacetime gathering of humanity in the history of humanity." Be that as it may, 2 million will descend upon Atlanta next week for the 100th anniversary of the Olympics, and they are entitled to ask, "Is Atlanta ready...