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...classic formula says California, the richest and most populous state, is the future. California is America's bright, strange cultural outrider: whatever happens now in California, or to California, will be happening to America before long, and to the entire world a little while after that. If you want to know whether America still works, then ask whether California still works. Does the reckless American hospitality to immigrants still accomplish its transformations and synergies? Can America still absorb so many disparate values and traditions and form them into a successful society? Or will the nation vanish into an incoherent future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: It Is Still America's Promised Land -- | 11/18/1991 | See Source »

...Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait was seen by Westerners as a violation of sovereignty and international law, Tibi said. "But sovereignty is a Western formula...

Author: By David S. Kurnick, | Title: Tibi Blasts 'New World Order' | 11/15/1991 | See Source »

Alpert and Wilson devised a formula of peanut butter and boric acid which is designed to attract ants, Liem said. Operation DEAD calls for the formula to be spread over cards and left around every room in the house...

Author: By Brian D. Ellison, | Title: Dunster Prepares To Battle Ant Menace | 11/14/1991 | See Source »

...same time, Gapification assuages that old Republican need to be better than others by guaranteeing that, at some level, someone will not be able to wear it and eat it (and be nice and middle class). It is a standard formula: ideologies which proclaim "All humans can be Gapified" are inverted, becoming "Only the Gapified are human...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The GAPification of America | 11/12/1991 | See Source »

TELEVISION The networks' latest hot formula: women as victims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 11/11/1991 | See Source »

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