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...discredit Bush's Texas record, in much the same way that President Bush successfully trashed the Massachusetts Miracle that was Dukakis' intended trump card in 1988. The Gore campaign has achieved its task in pure terms - there is certainly an awareness that Texas isn't quite the Garden of Eden that Bush has been portraying. But at the same time they were also trying to convey the belief that Bush, as a one-and-half-term governor of a state where the chief executive has very little power, would therefore lack the hands-on experience necessary to run a nation...
...aunt, uncle, cousins and father walked with me through Georgetown in search of this Harvard-owned Eden. We strolled through the streets of old and posh Georgetown, past graveyards and row upon row of brick homes, hunting for the famous flowers. When we reached the high black gate, there was already a crowd gathering for its opening. We lined up in front of a window to pay for admission. I noticed that the pricing sign didn't list any special favors for those with Harvard ID, but I was almost certain I wouldn't have to pay a dollar...
...opposing views of America - almost two religions - do battle in controversies like this. One is the conservationist Thoreauvian faith ("In wilderness, there is preservation of the world"), an essentially spiritual longing that comes to the sacred American landscape as to an Eden that can only be dirtied by the enterprise...
...seen not just at the Burning Man festival or in Phish-concert parking lots but also at New York City's touristy South Street Seaport and Los Angeles' Venice Beach. "When those flames are whooshing around me," sighs Ravera, "I feel like I'm in an adrenaline-fueled Eden...
...cost of only $30,000 over two years, however, most of it for training, implementing Eden is no more expensive than standard homes, say administrators. Some have found it increases profits. And Eden can save lives. Before Fir Lane had been "Edenized," Denny Stasco, 58, says he arrived with MS, feeling as though he had "been dropped off at the bus station with no ride home." Now, as the resident ham-radio operator and mayor of his "neighborhood," or hall, Stasco says, "there's no time to feel bad." That goes for physical health as well. Jessie Walters...