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...Inviting FM to join him on a surfing safari, Zittrain talks about his habits while skipping from site to site. When asked the average time he's on the Internet a day he says, "It's easier to measure the time I'm not surfing." Doing a quick calculation in his head, he refrains from using the calculator on the tools function of the computer, and says, "I stay plugged in on average 70 percent of the time, including time spent sleeping...
...launching a successful travel agency, she used that knowledge and gave it a twist. She began organizing excursions designed for grandparents and grandchildren. This year she's offering trips to 19 destinations, each with four or five departure dates, ranging from a working ranch in South Dakota to a safari in Kenya...
What Papa would have thought of all this is anyone's guess. But purists should remember that Hemingway was never shy about reaping the perks and rewards of his increasingly famous name. In fact, the 1953 East African safari that became the genesis of True at First Light began as a celebrity assignment for Look magazine. And the Kenyan government, worried that the Mau Mau uprisings would discourage tourism, welcomed Hemingway's visit and the publicity it would generate by naming him an honorary game warden...
...book also contains intriguing evidence that Hemingway, in his mid-50s, was entertaining second thoughts about the swaggering macho ethos that his writings and well-publicized exploits had so widely disseminated. Although he is on an African safari, he is weary with hunting: "The time of shooting beasts for trophies was long past with me." He recalls the treatment meted out to the Africans who had accompanied him on a previous safari. "Once they had been the boys... Twenty years ago I had called them boys too and neither they nor I had any thought that I had no right...
This is brisk, epic storytelling. Like a shaman in a village circle, the film spins the old saga, made familiar in the Edgar Rice Burroughs books and nearly 50 films, but with a fresh and affecting power. Now it is a safari into the interior of Tarzan's conflicted soul, where he searches not so much for his mate Jane as for his place in a society of men and apes. Though it would be nuts to predict Lion King-size revenues (that film and its ancillary markets made Disney $1 billion in profit), it is also hard to believe...