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Burlington, Iowa, was my destination. Kennedy Smith, director of the National Trust's Main Street program, said I'd find what I was looking for in this 167-year-old railroad town of about 27,000 built along the banks of the Mississippi and once known as Catfish Bend. I would eventually get there, but I got sidetracked. Eighteen miles to the south, I came upon the town of Fort Madison (pop. 11,618) and liked what...
Twain placed Huck and Jim on the river because the river was time, motion, beauty, baptism and violence, but mainly because one could not see around the bend. Civilizations are formed by bends in the river--the Nile, Congo, Thames, Yangtze--a twist of the land, water and fate that, by making it impossible to see what comes next, raises hopes of the possibility of everything...
Such inertia often breaks down during what is known in the industry as "life transitions"--weddings, births and deaths. Dana Brosnahan, 28, of West Bend, Wis., sought an outlet after her mother's death. "I wanted to have something for my kids so they would know my mother," she says. Scrapbooks appeal to the historian in each of us. In Milwaukee, Jan Schwabe, 41, took the politic route of making a "heritage book" of her husband's family. "He now appreciates my being into scrapbooking," she says. "And for the first time, he isn't asking me how much...
Because of the ease with which lectures can be uploaded to the Internet, time is no longer an obstacle for professors who want to bend the rules. The issue, say FAS officials, is whether outside activities themselves can be considered ethical...
...Grove and Intel were not out of the woods yet. Intel faced its biggest--and most public--crisis in 1994. After introducing the new Pentium processor, the fastest microchip yet created, Intel engineers found a bug in their new product. At first, Grove did not bend. Refusing to see the public relations implications, he decided to selectively replace only a few computers containing the problematic chip...