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...later. If I did get lost in Pusey it was only for a moment--a sudden placelessness. Books successfully in hand I allowed myself to follow a sudden lead: a sign pointing to "Geography." Hoping to find shelves of the world in relief, I followed instead a series of plastic signs to an oversized shelf headed by a large blue book. Setting down my stack I found the book was an encyclopedia of imaginary places: the perfect topology...
...rejected "Great Wall, Great Olympics" as plain dumb). The committee has also chartered a new bus?with a bar and computer outlets on board?for visiting I.O.C. delegates. Streets are lined with 100,000 bid posters and brightened up with huge urns of fake carnations, presently covered with plastic sheets to keep off the soot. The People's Armed Police, the paramilitary force that suppresses domestic unrest, has whitewashed median strips, and near Tiananmen Square, workers have painted the desiccated February grass green...
...most popular spot was the outdoor pool area, where smokers could light up. (Practically the only other place you can smoke in California these days is... Oregon.) Crammed dangerously close to the edge of the pool were trendsetters balancing plastic champagne flutes, polystyrene plates of Mexican food and cell phones (to find out if another party was hotter...
Reusser's store has an airy, modern feel. Its shelves and other display spaces are crammed with a bewildering array of hemp by-products. But most customers make straight for the counter and its white plastic drawer of cellophane-wrapped marijuana. "Hemp shops are basically places that sell grass," says Reusser. "The rest has been a good way of camouflaging an illegal activity. I like all the other stuff, but it doesn't make a lot of money...
Despite his vegetarian status, Hopkins agreed to taste the oatmeal-like substance inside the plastic brain...