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Evansville is one of the minor casualties in the war among the states over jobs. Money is lavished on would-be employers even at the expense of some citizens' basic needs. But in the minds of state politicians and economic developers, this is a small price to pay. From a purely economic point of view, they are dead wrong. But economics and politics are seldom a rational...
...price of admission? Thanks to an enlightened, let-a-thousand-palaces-bloom distribution policy, the client software you need to visit palaces is free (at www.thepalace.com) as is the server software that lets you build your...
Zero proved to be the right price. In the three months since E.C. adopted its Tom Sawyer model (customers will grow your business if you can seduce them into painting fences for you), the number of active palaces has soared from 300 to more than 1,000. And that's not counting the thousands of unregistered sites E.C. isn't yet able to track. Without spending a penny on marketing, says Samuels, he's been able to boost the number of downloaded site-hosting servers to more than 15,000. The number of Palace users, in turn, has jumped from...
...missing from most fashion-magazine covers, replaced by movie starlets. She's all but gone from top advertising campaigns, beaten out by anonymous, awkward-looking teenagers. She has virtually disappeared from runways, her asking price too dear. Even rock stars don't seem eager to date her anymore. A little glamour has left the world. And so the world mourns, its makeup runny from tears...
...small place. Rumblings of the Congo's struggle for independence from Belgium--and U.S. plotting to assassinate Patrice Lumumba, the new nation's first Prime Minister--are distant thunder in Kingsolver's tale. Her story, a symbolic parallel to the national upheaval, takes place in an isolated village. Nathan Price, an evangelical Baptist preacher, fanaticism in bitter parody, lugs his wife, daughters and rigid preconceptions to Kilanga, a small jungle settlement, where faith plays out as farce. To the hospitable but puzzled tribesmen, he rails against nakedness and multiple wives, and he insists on river baptisms though crocodiles lurk...