Word: frontieres
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ambitions command attention because he has scored one success after another, even if his first Las Vegas venture was a flop. At 25, he took money he had made in his family's bingo business in Maryland and invested $45,000 to purchase a 3% interest in the Frontier Hotel, where he became the slot manager. But several stockholders of the hotel turned out to be stand-ins for Detroit mobsters, and Wynn was forced to sell early. He was never accused of being anything but an innocent in the affair, and he did get something invaluable...
...because he's so smart and works so hard," says a longtime Clinton friend. "The badge of honor in his White House is the fact that no one dawdles and everyone brags about not sleeping." (Such an affection for process over substance dominated the early months of the New Frontier too. "Yeah," said Robert Kennedy in a sober, after-the-fact recollection, "those were the days when we thought we were succeeding because of all the stories on how hard everybody was working...
That is the factual background of this vivid historical novel -- part poignant biographical fiction, part raw frontier epic. Like the author herself, a former ballet dancer and granddaughter of a white slave, the narrator is an American woman residing in Britain who returns home to learn the true story of her grandfather, which he had recorded in coded diaries. Jonathan Carrick had been a "boughten boy," indentured when he was four for $15 to an ice-hearted tobacco farmer named Alvah Stoke. Dickensian is too amiable a word for Jonathan's ordeals. He slept on a dirt floor with...
...boards. Vice President Gore talks about making it possible for a schoolchild in Arkansas to have access to a book stored on a computer in the Library of Congress or take a course at a distant college. Mitch Kapor, co- founder of a computer watchdog group called the Electronic Frontier Foundation, wants the superhighway to do for video what computer bulletin boards did for print - make it easy for everyone to publish ideas to an audience eager to respond in kind. He envisions a nation of leisure-time video broadcasters, each posting his creations on a huge nationwide video bulletin...
...worse off than before the mission. Says Princeton astronomer Edwin Turner: "It's a tremendous gamble. If it succeeds, it will be a really impressive feat. Or they could leave us with a nonfunctional spacecraft." And a sharply diminished faith in NASA's ability to explore the last frontier...