Stopping Off in the Gothic South, on the Road to Ruin
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In the first feature directed by Shainee Gabel, John Travolta delivers a hammed-up scenery-chewing variation of the brainy good ole boy he played in "Primary Colors."
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A long and winding road runs from Joseph Fletcher to Craig Conway.
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As the suburbs swell in some Southern states, developers must sometimes grapple with the problem of what to do when an old cemetery lies in the path of the backhoes.
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I forget where I heard this, but there&#39;s an old parable about an angel and a demon (or, maybe it&#39;s God and the Devil) walking down a street, not far from each other.
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In a wooded ravine tucked away from the water parks, restaurants and mega-resorts that dominate this tourist town, a piece of history is quietly dying.
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Amid the twisted metal and rubble of downtown storefronts and homes, in the side streets where residents tentatively ventured out, and even among the rebels in retreat, the word
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CHOROTIS, Argentina This is an old railroad town, with severed telegraph lines dangling from track-side poles and a depot where graffiti is the one obvious sign of recent activity.
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By Gabriel Tynes, Walton Sun, Santa Rosa Beach, Fla.  Feb. 3--There are several rusted sculptures near the entrance to Shoal Sanctuary that at first resemble dead dandelions. Jutting up from the ground on rebar "stems," the sculptures are capped by railroad spikes radiating from the apex.
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Ten of the globe's most perilous places--and what to do if you have to visit one.
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Painful recollections of a bygone eraÂs racism have emerged with the excavation of an old Mississippi mill townÂs pool.
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By Leigh Coleman, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Jun. 27--LANDON ROAD -- The thousands of wrecked vehicles that filled farmland off Landon Road in Gulfport stood as a constant reminder of Katrina's devastation.
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There&#39;s a scene close to the beginning of Half-Life 2 of an urban vista in which a flock of birds flies toward a pale ecru sky against the backdrop of a very tall, black, ominous building.
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La senatrice teodem commenta le parole del cardinal Ruini
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Their homes are in ruins, many have only the clothes they&#39;re wearing, yet those who took a direct hit from hurricane Ivan returned to their neighbourhoods yesterday determined to rebuild.
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By KRISTEN DAVENPORT, PHOTO BY JANE PHILLIPS
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There are ghosts haunting âBanished,â about the forced expulsion of black Southerners from their homes in the troubled and violent decades after the Civil War.
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Southwest Washington is an antique vision of the future. It's mid-century's idea of "progress," a never-to-be-repeated experiment in bulldozing shabby if genuine neighborhoods and replacing them with chilly high-rise modernity. To this day it struggles to present much sense of life or soul.