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...flatness of Texas's High Plains, Lockney, Texas, is about as far removed from inner-city gangs and violence as is possible to get in the lower forty-eight. The nearest city with an airport, Lubbock, is, as the song says, a place best observed from a rear view mirror. Not much happens in these parts. That's the way most people want it. Populated with deeply religious people who like their religion like they like their barbecue sauce--fiery and covering everything--the west Texas Panhandle is one of the last notches on the Bible Belt...

Author: By Joseph L. Jacobson, | Title: Finding Drugs, Losing Rights | 5/8/2000 | See Source »

Katie Tarbox, the very picture of affluent teen normality, shows off her family?s two-story house in the plush Connecticut suburb of New Canaan. The 18-year-old stops only to look briefly in a mirror and smooth down her already well-coiffed, highlighted blond hair. Then she takes me to her room, where a Gateway computer and a Sony Vaio vie with her Laura Ashley bedspread set and wicker furnishings. "The Vaio is such a beautiful thing," she sighs. We go back downstairs and say hello to cockatoo Agidore and Katie?s older sister ? also blond and round...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Something Wicked This Way Comes | 5/8/2000 | See Source »

...Posh” Spice, a.k.a. Victoria Beckham, raised a stink after her set of three $3,161 Louis Vuitton designer suitcases were stolen from Heathrow airport earlier this month. British Airways launched an investigation and, according to Britain’s Sunday Mirror, agreed to pay her 100,000 pounds after she had huffed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: 15 Minutes | 4/27/2000 | See Source »

...federal courts in the U.S. to enjoin linking and distribution throughout the Web. So may a court in Iraq or Cuba tell U.S. citizens in the U.S. what they can and cannot read? Of course not. But a U.S. court can censor citizens of Canada and Sweden, or enjoin "mirror sites" located all over the world. That's not the rule of law, just corporate imperialism...

Author: By Eben Moglen, | Title: Cyberpatrol Curbs Speech | 4/25/2000 | See Source »

...Nashville skyline beckons like a shimmering Oz to lots of young country musicians, but for Shelby Lynne and Neko Case, it's a cityscape better seen from a rearview mirror. Working outside the country- music capital, the two singer-songwriters have each released breakthrough albums that go to the heart of Nashville by redefining what a country song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Blows Against The Empire | 4/24/2000 | See Source »

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