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...range. The FBI says it has independently verified the Navy's account and that the plane wreckage recovered so far shows no signs of a missile blast. Salinger has also made much of a photograph, published in France by the magazine Paris Match, which was taken on the outdoor deck of a Long Island restaurant on the evening of the crash, which shows a bright blip in the evening sky. A missile? But reporters and federal investigators determined that the picture was taken facing north, away from the sea where the plane eventually fell. Above all, the exasperated federal agents...
...shrinking game has petered out when it hit our palms. Trying to build a handtop computer like the Apple Newton or Sony's Magic Link was a sure route to digital Edseldom. It was just too hard to fit anything useful into a space the size of a deck of cards...
...couple stood up on deck, watching as the newcomers floated...
...thick with suntan oil as children played in wading pools and teams of volunteers cleared courts to the demonic sounds of Jerry Lee Lewis singing Great Balls of Fire. In Savannah, Georgia, where yachting was staged, a media-transport coordinator consisted of a man in a deck chair on an empty sidewalk. In Atlanta Beach, only 230 miles from the nearest real sand, beach-volleyball fans sipped daiquiris in their bathing trunks while strangers sprayed them down with high-tech, fluorescent-green water pistols. And when one entered a media center in the Georgian Athens, behind a sign that said...
Liberals and conservatives who are busily rearranging the deck chairs of decline are missing a new reality--that Americans are redefining the forms and nature of their engagement. Robert Wuthnow, a Princeton sociology professor, suggests that Americans are eschewing large bureaucratic organizations like the Red Cross for smaller, flexible ones that fit their life-style. "Civic participation has become more diverse and loosely structured so people can move in and out of issues and organizations," he says. Tocqueville saw in the American character a divide between individualism and communitarianism. Americans today are still trying to find their way through that...