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...miles from the site where tourists board fantasy rocket rides based on George Lucas' Star Wars. Disney World has the Space Mountain roller coaster; Orlando has FreeFlight Zephyrhills, a firm that is experimenting with wind- tunnel technology to simulate a skydiving experience on the ground. Disney's Epcot Center has Michael Jackson in 3-D as Captain Eo; Orlando created the simulators on which allied pilots learned to aim their smart bombs...
...Disney World, Avalon would be strollable and full of shops and parks, and like Disney World, it would be built in the middle of nowhere. In nearby Osceola County, Disney is getting into the business of residential utopias, harking back, in a way, to Walt's original concept for Epcot. His Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow was intended to be sealed under a glass dome to keep out heat and humidity. It was to have had stores, apartments, schools, churches, offices, marinas, parks, golf courses, a monorail, a vacuum-tube trash-disposal system, a central computer controlling everything from streetlights...
...Epcot never took that form, in part, according to author John Taylor, because Walt realized he would have had to subsidize residents to attract them to his closely monitored community. Epcot today is a permanent world's fair that includes two sets of pavilions: scientific ones that celebrate mankind's technological mastery of the universe and a clutch of foreign lands without masses of foreigners -- 11 cultural boutiques that fit around a man-made lagoon as a symbol of human fellowship. "Probably it's much cleaner here than some of those countries you would go to," says visitor Sandy Hyde...
Like a moth to a flame, O'Rourke, 43, is drawn to exotic hellholes, from the Philippines to Orlando's Epcot Center, to find out just what makes the world such a horrible place. (Besides, it's usually great fun.) But it is not his war reporting that distinguishes him; rather, it is his eye for the bizarre, the mundane and the incomprehensible. During student riots in Seoul, while being pelted with roof tiles, O'Rourke took note of the spotless bathrooms. At Saudi gas stations, which have 58 cents-a-gallon gas and American-style rest rooms, he reported...
...Disney expects to spend an additional $3 billion to build a convention center, a second golf course and several more hotels with 13,000 rooms. The company also plans a Disney-MGM movie studio and possibly a European science park like Florida's Epcot Center...