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...destination, tantalizing the daydreams of restless souls itching to pick up and move. "These are sustainable economies, absolutely. It's not just another cycle but a permanent, historic shift," says Richard Lamm, the popular three-term former Governor of Colorado who now teaches public policy at the University of Denver. The Rockies' notorious history of booms and busts that created ghost towns as suddenly as gold rushes may be over...
...laden with a backpack of paradoxes. Its trademark is no longer the pickup truck with rifle rack driven by a blue-collar hunter but the Jeep Cherokee or the Range Rover maneuvered by a young professional who more likely than not favors gun control. "I love it here in Denver," says Tom Bauer, 33, a Harvard-educated architect who left Skidmore Owings & Merrill in Los Angeles to try his hand at environment-sensitive design in Colorado. "Sure, I worry about urban problems like crime catching up to us here, but I guess I'm hopeful they can be resolved...
...Rockies are especially fertile ground for a proliferation of workers who, like Tipple, are variously known as the telecommuters, the modem cowboys or, as Philip Burgess, president of the Denver think-tank Center for the New West, puts it, the "lone eagles." Burgess agrees that "what's happening in the Rockies is not unlike what happened in California in its golden years." But he emphasizes a big difference: "In the Rocky Mountain region, it's not taxi drivers anymore -- it's professional people who realize they can locate anywhere and live by their wits. Many were middle managers who were...
...silver rushes of the 1870s and 1880s -- to diversify. Idaho also continued to help small companies grow larger while encouraging the new high-tech industries around Boise. Wyoming revived its moribund coal fields with the world's most highly automated mining processes. Colorado financed an ambitious drive to make Denver an international hub with a new $3 billion airport. Utah restructured its copper and steel mills and absorbed their laid-off workers into gleaming new aerospace, computer-software and financial-services facilities. "The Rockies became leaner and meaner ahead of the rest of the country," says Russell Behrmann, Utah...
...style, like that of its Buddhist-inspired Naropa Institute, where Allen Ginsberg still holds court each summer. And it regularly hyperventilates with an ultra-liberal world view that has prompted the city council to pronounce itself on foreign policy as readily as on sewage easements. During the Gulf War, Denver, like the rest of the U.S., appeared to be 80% in favor. Not surreal Boulder: there, hundreds of antiwar protesters blocked traffic in the city center day after...