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...Cole who chose Fargo as the microcosm for the debate on federal benevolence and intrusion. Says Duffy, who wrote the story: "She saw it as a fascinating mix of frontier and front page. Then she dissected the town until she knew more about it than a lot of Fargoans. Late last week, needing an anecdote, she ran down to a local bowling alley, did three interviews and delivered a freshly minted kicker for the story inside of an hour...
...past. They are signifiers of untamed wilderness and rebellious vigor. Tan pants put you in mind of, well, the Ivy League. How exciting is that? It's really east coast WASPs versus the melting pot of the other 45 states. It's downright un-American not to worship the frontier...
Perhaps the only thing certain about Mack'sabduction research is its surrounding controversy.According to Beverley A. Rubick, director of theCenter for Frontier Sciences at Temple University,"anyone who is raising extraordinary questionsabout what we think about realty is going to belaughed at or ridiculed...
Stephen L. Talbott, a technical editor at O'Reilly & Associates, finally did just that. A philosopher by training, and briefly a farmer, Talbott went online 14 years ago. In the beginning, he enjoyed the free flow of information and the sense that he was exploring an uncharted frontier. But he found that as the offerings on the Net grew exponentially, so did the time he spent there. Toward the end, he was online four or five hours a day doing Internet-related work. Finally, in December, he cut himself off from the Net completely. "I immediately felt very good...
...counts. For every sublime Miyake, there is always someone out there on a toot. Even designers who usually make well-cut, wearable clothes, like Donna Karan, get the fever. In her DKNY show, the city girl went western, featuring dubious slinky pants with a phony chaps look, crinoline-shaped frontier skirts and hats that were at least seven gallons. In Paris, Jean-Paul Gaultier, perennial idol of the fashion press, indulged in one of his toughest tart looks ever. Each of his models had one eye blackened, and sullen stares seemed to be a decree. Some of them wore cyberspace...