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...carrier's highspeed mobile network. Connecting to the Internet via cellular modem, I was still able to pull up the cable box in my home, even though we could have been a continent apart. Connecting remotely did cost a lot of bandwidth however: at 300 Kbps, South Park and The Colbert Report were watchable, but game highlights from a Tino Martinez retrospective on the Yankees' YES network were wracked with digital blur...
...CivilWarland,” employees are subjected to horrific violence when some of the real dead simulated in their Civil War recreations come back to haunt them. In the eponymous theme-park of his second collection, “Pastoralia,” impatient visitors and their bratty children pay to observe individuals dressed up as Cro-Magnons, who are allowed to speak only in grunts in the ersatz cave that is their workplace. (They can curse at their own misbehaving offspring, fax evaluations of each other’s daily performance, chainsmoke, bicker, flirt, and so on, only after...
...relaxation (read flagons of beer and plates of hearty grub). A favorite spot for meals and overnight accommodation is the Gruttenhütte, reached after a thrilling trek up the Wilder Kaiser. Read more at austria-tourism.at MAUI, HAWAII: The 43 km of trails through Maui's Haleakala National Park nps.gov/hale may [an error occurred while processing this directive] seem a modest distance to experienced trekkers, but the varied and dramatic landscape will awe even the most seasoned veteran. From the volcanic Haleakala crater and the lush Oheo Gulch to inviting pools, bamboo forests and the gorgeous 122-m Waimoku...
...still struck me as a harbinger of... something. New York City's northern suburbs, where I live, are home to women who until recently were waiting for the day they could trade their Ford Expedition for an Excursion, maybe some day an Extravaganza that was even more impossible to park. We may shop at Whole Foods and buy hormone-free milk for the kids, but natural sensitivity and ecological awareness stopped at the garage door. As a neighbor once explained to me, when she was behind the wheel of her Expedition, it was the only time she felt completely...
...even a single day's wages. Orlando Sandoval of Nicaragua did not attend the rally in Miami because he was afraid if he missed a day answering phones or packing fish at Signature Seafood, he would be fired. In Chicago, Manuel Escelante, a Honduran who works for the Chicago Park District, was busy cleaning the very park that the organizers were using as a rallying point. "I can't leave my job," he said. " I'm with them, my heart, but I have a job to do. I have to work...