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...Philadelphia jurists (two Bush appointees, one Carter) found no indication that children were at particular risk to exposure to smut online--TIME's controversial "cyberporn" cover story last summer notwithstanding. In a kind of Socratic online safari, the judges spent weeks learning their way around the Net. Guided by experts who brought computers and an Internet connection into the courtroom, they searched for online porn and tested software that allows parents to screen out offensive material. They finally concluded that whatever danger was posed for kids by the presence of "indecent" offerings online was best addressed by parents or teachers...
...Christopher Cedergren read the signs two years ago on Rodeo Drive, at the opening of a shrieks-with-chic Barneys boutique. His epiphany was outside the store, not inside. Instead of Bentley Turbos, Mercedes S-class sedans and the usual Porsches and Lamborghinis, so boring, there was a Lost Safari of Land Rovers, Ford Explorers, Grand Cherokees and GMC Suburbans, all tricked out with steel brush guards, roof racks, off-roading spare-wheel mounts, and black-leather car bras to ward off gravel and grasshoppers on the Paris-Dakar run. Cedergren flashed his perception to his clients: "Cars...
...sight. Sure. Whether they can get you there in actuality is not important. Even if they are filling-looseners that drive like trucks on washboarded gravel roads, which most of them do, they are unbeatable fantasy machines. Land Rover, which encourages its salespeople to come to work in safari gear, admits its best U.S. customers live within 150 miles of Manhattan. Lincoln, in planning to bring out its Mountaineer model this year, found that only 15% to 18% of utility-vehicle owners ever used their machines to tow or haul anything. And as for off-road rowdiness, "They look...
When asked what her associations with khakis were, one senior in Dunster replied: "White men on safari. Drunk colonialists raping a country and giving it religion and disease." Would she don a pair? "No. They're definitely not hip for a post-post-modern world...
...safari housing: On the safari, we lived in a tent. It was supposed to be a tent, but it was a mahogany tent with silken mosquito netting. Like Eliot in tent form...