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...Perris foothills and look north to the hard browns and purples of the Badland hills and the San Gorgonios Mountains: between the lake and the peaks, Moreno Valley sprawls across the desert floor. While dust devils dance on the shimmering sand, summer heat relentlessly fills all spaces. This is pioneer and pathfinder country, a desert that developers turned into the mother of all real estate opportunities by diverting water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and the Oroville reservoir, far to the north. This is a place for hardworking parents, with wagon-train hearts, seeking picket-fenced yards, swing sets...
Schuller's great distinction, perhaps, is not just that he was a pioneer of the drive-in church (and his sermons are still broadcast, via a wide-screen TV, to overflow parishioners in the parking lot outside), nor that he has managed to erect a glittering monument to his "Be-Happy Attitudes," but rather that he has gathered a huge nationwide following out of preaching what is in effect Californianism. For if you look at his books (Your Future Is Your Friend, Success Is Never Ending, Failure Is Never Final), and if you walk around his church, as airy...
...best-known pioneer of Pacific Rim cooking is Wolfgang Puck, California's reigning celebrity chef. When it comes to dining, he maintains, Californians love novelty. "There are so many cultures with exciting cuisines here," observes the Austrian-born Puck. "After all, the culinary heritage of Thailand is more interesting than Poland's. Californians are very open. They're less likely than back East to go for pot roast or baked scrod!" When he started up Spago in Beverly Hills, he employed young Asians in his kitchen. In 1983 Puck decided to look East himself -- Far East -- with Chinois on Main...
BESIDES the obvious economic benefits of gambling, we should also consider its revitalization of the pioneer spirit. Gambling inflames the passions. People respond to the opportunity to win money. That's why libraries close at midnight and casinos are open all night...
...receivers picked up Pioneer 10 in 1985. It was a sanity check, a proof of concept. It proved that SETI could pick up a weak transmission. It was a triumph of engineering," says Arnold. Pioneer's signal was 1 watt, no stronger than a Christmas tree light...