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...year 2025 at a prestigious Eastern-seaboard college. A professor of American studies is addressing the packed class for his course "From Wham! to Pearl Jam: Aesthetic Shifts in Late 20th Century Popular Culture." The 1990s were a Golden Age in the history of American tastes, he argues, a decade of pared-down chic superior to the one that preceded it. To bolster his thesis, he cites the rise of poignant alternative music, the popularity of earth-toned packaging and the disappearance of clothing with shoulder pads. His students are unconvinced. What was so great, they shout, about...
...would be tough to find this kind of concentration of ethnicities anywhere else on the eastern seaboard," Sudholz said...
...getting rich is a mixed blessing. The rigid discipline of the party and its apparatus is slipping, and crime is on the increase. Corruption -- payoffs and connections -- is the rule at every level. Wealth is growing unevenly: very fast in the special zones, in big cities and along the seaboard, but slowly in the great agricultural interior. Both rural and urban incomes have increased significantly in the past 15 years, but farmers still average less than half of the city worker's wages. Agriculture Minister Liu Jiang warns, "The profitability of farming is declining, and farmers are losing their motivation...
Tanglewood, the summer music mecca in western Massachusetts, is an enigma of identity. It is associated with some of the most promising young talent on the eastern seaboard, but its clientele is composed of the wealthy elderly who populate the Berkshires and eastern New York. With their champagne and Heinekens in hand (one wonders how vigilant Tanglewood is regarding alcohol regulations), these folks can be seen leaving an orchestra's final piece prematurely to beat the traffic, or heard to say, "Where's the music coming from?" In the summer, college students in this sparsely populated area...
...meantime, military contractors are beginning to scale back operations on their own. With gigantic contracts so few and far between, producers along the Eastern seaboard are laying off tens of thousands of workers. No alternative buyers exist (legally, anyway) for super-futuristic weapons systems. Even firms that get contracts must lay off workers whose skills have suddenly become outdated...