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...working for Billboard, and failing in his first bid for folkie stardom (his debut album stiffed, and his second was put on the shelf). In 1971 he fled Tennessee and a bad first marriage and wound up at the end of the road in Key West, then a lazy outpost for shrimpers, smugglers, gays and cosmic cowboys like singer Jerry Jeff Walker and novelist Tom McGuane, who ended up married to Buffett's sister Laurie...
...fall, Harvard plans to open an outpost in Hong Kong that will serve as a central resource for University activity in the area--activity that has skyrocketed in recent years as more Faculty research has been considered in the area...
...beige Compaq Proliant 2500 computer and an off-white Dell Poweredge, hooked into a refrigerator-size rack of network routers and, from there, via a thumb-thick black cable, to the infinite abundance of the Internet. Edward Zeng, the 35-year-old Chinese entrepreneur who commands this tiny outpost in the battle for information freedom, can't resist a grin as he looks around the modest but astonishing room buried within a warren of offices in the bunker-like hallways under Beijing's Capital Stadium. As state-sponsored basketball and badminton teams practice overhead, Zeng pats one of his purring...
...have to park your car at Mackinaw City. Those who do not want to cross the bridge can take one of the ferries from St. Ignace, just across the straits. Before you go, be sure to visit Colonial Michilimackinac, a reconstructed French fur-trading village and military outpost...
They would have the name of a town, Outer Maroo, but not its location, scrawled months ago on a postcard as a possible next stop. With cruelly bad luck they might find the place. The author describes an outpost of paranoia and fear festering with something more virulent than countrymen's traditional loathing for outsiders and government bureaucrats. Rumored large discoveries of opals in the surrounding geologic strata don't really explain matters because opal mining has scuffled along here for decades. Except for tankerloads of beer and gasoline, contact with the rest of Australia is largely cut off. Mail...