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<P>In today's New York Time's Travel Section:</P> <P>"THE town of White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., in the Allegheny Mountains has been a vacation spot for the powerful and the privileged since the early 1800s. And what began as an inn and scattered summer homes is now a 6,500-acre luxury resort, the Greenbrier, owned by CSX Corporation. It includes a spa, three golf courses, horseback trails, trout streams, skeet shooting, bowling, opulent shops, a culinary school, a museum and its own Amtrak station.</P> <P>"But its most notable facility is far from luxurious, its grim purpose the antithesis of recreation. Built during the cold war and operated in secrecy for 30 years, it is a gargantuan underground fallout shelter, intended for use by the entire <A title="Go to the United States Travel Guide." href="http://travel2.nytimes.com/top/features/travel/destinations/unitedstates/?inline=nyt-geo"><FONT color=#000066>United States</FONT></A> Congress in the event, as it was put in the movie “Dr. Strangelove,” of “nuke-u-lar combat toe to toe with the Rooskies.”</P> <P>"Officially designated Project Greek Island but known colloquially as “the bunker,” it was decommissioned after its location was revealed by The Washington Post in 1992. Since its reopening this summer after a two-year renovation, it has again become a popular, if somewhat dreary, tourist attraction. The tours had been given since 1995."</P> <P><A href="http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/11/12/travel/12heads.html?ref=travel">http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/11/12/travel/12heads.html?ref=travel</A></P> <P>Dave</P>
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