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...they had won, maybe Disneyland. But for several defeated Congressional Democrats, a colder destination awaits: Cambridge, Massachusetts...
...Southern California area's financial fall. With a population of nearly 2.6 million and a median household income of $47,774, Orange is the fifth largest county in the U.S. and boasted the fourth richest county government before the crisis. As famed for its political conservatism as for Disneyland and aerospace giants like McDonnell Douglas, Orange County was the birthplace of Richard Nixon and gave Ronald Reagan the largest margin of victory of any U.S. county in his presidential races. "It's incredible, really," says Mark Baldassare, a sociologist at the University of California at Irvine. "How do you explain...
Afternoons are spent panhandling the tourists, especially around Mann's Chinese Theater and the Walk of Fame. When night falls, the tourists disappear and the city becomes hell's 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...
Some nations are beginning to realize the style over substance nature of American mass culture. Going to Disneyland is a fun diversion, but in a century, someone will laugh at those plastic mouse ears, the basis of an entire culture. Mickey Mouse in fact stands a better chance of lasting the century than the Quebecers in New England...
Tourists aren't exactly flocking to the financially-iffy EuroDisney theme park, but could they succumb to the allure of . . . Disneyland Paris? So goes the thinking of EuroDisney officials, who said today they hoped the new moniker would draw tourists visiting the French capital to the site, just 45 minutes by train. A Disney spokesman laid the plan bare: "We want to build more on the obvious synergy between Paris and Disneyland...