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...vacancy rate downtown. Young people fled after high school in search of jobs, the tax base shrank, businesses left, and people had to drive to the next town to buy shoes. An entire building on Main Street sold in 1985 for $425. So town leaders put window shades in the upper stories of all the buildings on Main Street to make it look as if someone lived there, and began marketing the town to tourists and entrepreneurs and a wave of urban refugees...
...Austin, Nev., a rickety mining town whose gold ore was exhausted years ago, junk-shop proprietor Leo Wolfers is sweeping up a pile of window glass shattered by a mysterious sonic boom. Wolfers is used to the screaming fighter jets that take off from nearby Fallon Naval Air Station, but he says the plane that smashed his windows was no ordinary craft. "It was diamond shaped. It could rise straight up and hover. One of those planes they aren't allowed to talk about. Their pilots crash into mountains all the time, but the Navy just covers...
...them, these two women have executed more image makeovers than many beauticians will in a lifetime. All on themselves--and all in the name of their art, of course. MADONNA, whose latest incarnation is Mother (and who has come under fire recently for, of all things, not having childproof window guards in her apartment), is the sole sponsor of an exhibition of works by CINDY SHERMAN, "Untitled Film Stills," which opens this week at New York City's Museum of Modern Art. Sherman photographs herself in a variety of guises, many of which evoke old Hollywood B-movies. No wonder...
Somebody else says, "How about if we have a kid seeing something really scary out a second-story window, but his parents don't believe him, and then the scary thing does its dirty work?" Swell: a dinosaur in The Lost World, a runaway cruise ship in Speed...
...material comes from peeking at, say, tomorrow's Washington Post headlines and running them today. Though he doesn't like to talk about it, he's got a couple of top-secret passwords that allow him to sneak into the internal computer networks of media powerhouses and, uh, window-shop among the works in progress. In addition, a network of tipsters, many of them reporters looking for a little advance buzz, regularly feed him leads...