This booming city, now about 4 million people strong, perhaps became most famous with Margaret Mitchell's phenomenon "Gone with the Wind."  Atlanta got its start as a train terminus in 1837 and was already mostly destroyed by the time General William T. Sherman began his infamous March the Sea from here in 1864.  The city rose again after the War (and is sometimes called the "Phoenix City") and became a center of the American Civil Rights Movement.  In 1996, it was the site of the Olympic Summer Games.  Today, Atlanta offers everything one expects from a world-class city, as well as some expected problems (traffic and urban sprawl).  Scarlett and Rhett wouldn't recognize the place.