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...stuff. Multiple pairs of skis, poles, clothing, waxes and a portable ski bench only rounded out half the load. The other half included various shooting accessories including, of course, my rifle. During my years of working summers in Alaska I transported firearms regularly during travels to the last frontier. However, no matter how many times you do it, there is nothing like walking through a crowded airport with a fully functional firearm and hundreds of rounds of ammunition in your bags. It never ceases to amaze me that you can just casually walk up to the baggage check...
Certainly, the FBI did not portray Carnivore in this light. There is a real problem here, and Carnivore is only one of many examples of the need for legal regulation in the vast technological frontier. The Internet technology on which many of us have become so reliant, and which we assume is private, is now backfiring in ways that jeopardize our fundamental liberties. So until I start planning a revolution, purchasing arms on the black market or consorting with fundamentalist terrorists, the U.S. government should stay out of my life. And even then, it should approach me with a search...
...Julien uses similar elements—such as color, space and time—to tell a modern cowboy tale. Using a three-screen projection rather than two, Julien explores the contradictory elements of cowboys; their masculinity and eroticism, their freedom to roam yet restrained emotions and their frontier mentality. Cowboys dance randomly from screen to screen, then simply stare, then start swimming nude, then dance again—this cycle continues. The cyclical features of both the cowboys and their backdrop distort the perceptions of freedom and wild exploration that are naturally attached to these “frontiersmen...
...elegance also made an irrefutable argument for the U.S. (One look at Nikita Khrushchev's wife Nina and you understood why the Russians have a word like babushka.) Thin as an icicle, as up-to-the-minute as a nose cone, wherever Jackie was, there was the New Frontier...
Whatever the future brings, the World's original owners can bask in the enjoyment of pioneering the good life's final frontier. At least, that is, until someone announces luxury condos on the moon...