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...have been picking up echoes of extremely fast overflights heading east from Los Angeles. Now Royal Air Force radar technicians at the NATO base in Machrihanish, Scotland, have identified the cause of it all. Officially, the U.S. Air Force is mum. But insiders say Lockheed has been test-flying AURORA, the top-secret hypersonic U.S. spy plane, code-named "Senior Citizen," which can fly at speeds exceeding 4,000 m.p.h. That's about 90 min. from Washington to Baghdad...
...AURORA, Ill.--Wayne's World is a hit in Aurora, Illinois, where the movie is supposed to be set, especially among would-be peers of Wayne and Garth...
...Everyone in the theater cheered real loud whenever they mentioned Aurora," says Neil Stadtherr, 15. "People are proud Wayne's supposed to be from here...
...movie has prompted calls to the Aurora Chamber of Commerce from people about some of the film's fictitious landmarks, including a doughnut shop owned by hockey great Stan Mikita and a sculpture of wrecked cars, according to Chamber of Commerce President Steve Hatcher...
...water rights become a reality, the experience of Crowley County in eastern Colorado could become a somber indicator of the future. Starting in the 1970s, farmers along the Arkansas River, a separate system from the Colorado, began selling their water rights to the mushrooming cities of Colorado Springs and Aurora. Prices soon soared to more than $700 an acre-foot. Now what used to be 70,000 acres of irrigated land has shrunk to 5,000 acres, and the closing of dozens of farms has wrecked the local tax base. "We're drifting back to dry-land desert," says farmer...