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Today's world is measured in light-years and Mach speed, and sheathed in silicon and alloy. In the world of 999, on the eve of the first millennium, time moved at the speed of an oxcart or, more often, of a sturdy pair of legs, and the West was built largely on wood. Europe was a collection of untamed forests, countless mile upon mile of trees and brush and brier, dark and inhospitable. Medieval chroniclers used the word desert to describe their arboreal world, a place on the cusp of civilization where werewolves and bogeymen still lunged...
...Hightower's tub-thumping has prompted resentment among industry giants like Othal Brand, a vegetable grower in the Rio Grande valley. Says Brand: "The little farmer has gone the way of the oxcart. Leave it up to Hightower, and we'd be like India." Among Hightower's powerful foes are chemical companies, which he alienated by pushing a tough pesticide law in 1985 and nearly doubling the number of produce inspectors...
Some years back, James Russell Wiggins, editor of the Ellsworth American in Maine, wanted to prove to readers how pitifully slow was the U.S. Postal Service. So he proposed a race: he sent letters to a nearby village, one through the Postal Service and others by oxcart, canoe and bicycle. At the pedals was a local celebrity, Writer E.B. White. The Postal Service lost every race, and Wiggins gloated on the front page...
They couldn't say no. Wednesday they will roll into Grand Rapids by plane, flivver, oxcart and unicycle for two days of laughs and an occasional serious thought if they can't stop it before it gets...
...side, a native daughter, radiant in a jewel-encrusted gown by Tenniswear Couturier Ted Tinling; it cost, they say, $8,000-four times the average Rumanian's yearly salary. "Long life!" chants the choir, and the couple heads off, this time in a flower-festooned oxcart, into...