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...after a year. Earlier this year, Citi pulled the plug on a computerized information service aimed at grocery shoppers. Knight-Ridder lost about $50 million in a failed home-shopping service. And in its ambitious effort to make paper vanish, Wang Laboratories itself almost disappeared when it bet the ranch on manufacturing expensive document-scanning and imaging systems that nobody wanted. Says David Goulden, a Wang vice president: "The market's been a disappointment...
...answering machine at his 60-acre ranch in Sonoma County, Calif., Keen sings Cole Porter's Don't Fence Me In. Keen grew up in Alabama, Tennessee and Delaware ("more Huck Finn than Holden Caulfield," he says in his high- pitched foghorn of a voice) and has a doctorate in philosophy of religion from Princeton. His thesis concerned the idea of mystery. "I've always been interested in talking clearly about things that can never really be known," he says...
...spiritual immortality too. Campus Crusade for Christ, an evangelical group that plans to bring the Gospel to 6 billion people worldwide by the year 2000, is moving its headquarters from San Bernardino, Calif., to the area. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, which owns a ranch in rural Orange, Osceola and Brevard counties 10 times the size of Disney's property, wants to build a community for 10,000 families...
...sort of strictly enforced urban planning has come to seem somehow anti- American over the past half-century, and especially during the laissez- faire decade just ended. To create neotraditional towns requires that residents surrender some bits of individualism (no picture windows, no chain- link fences, no raised ranch houses) for the sake of overall harmony -- yet many neighborhood homeowners' associations already have rigid rules regarding lawns and paint colors. Some critics disparage the nostalgia that fuels the traditional-town movement -- as if all suburbs weren't in some measure nostalgic exercises, attempts to indulge middle-class Americans' pastoral urges...
...Resistance, how could Catherine Wallace of New Zealand turn out to be anything but an ecological crusader? She got the call to action 12 years ago, when she learned that a mining company had obtained exploration rights from the government for the forest lands on her family's sheep ranch on the North Island's rugged Coromandel peninsula and was about to excavate. "I thought this was outrageous and unjust," recalls Wallace, now 39 and a lecturer in resource economics at Victoria University in Wellington. "I began to protest strongly not only about people marching onto private property but possibly...