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Those with a taste for literary allusions will find more to savor here. Names lifted from other Hawthorne novels (Blithedale, Pyncheon) crop up in unexpected contexts; as Sarah seeks her karma in the Sunbelt, she has reason to resent "my old-fashioned Puritan conscience." But Updike's use of such references should not be taken too somberly; the stern, rock-ribbed moral universe of The Scarlet Letter serves here as a subtle counterpoint to a comic vision of anything-goes ethics in mid-1980s America...
...just that the elderly are living longer, healthier lives. They are living them differently. Look around the Sunbelt. Florida, Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada have some of the country's fastest-growing populations of those over 65. In some places it seems a wholly different, more leisurely universe, full of choices and passions long delayed. There is Hulda Crooks, 91, who has climbed 97 mountains since she turned 65, most recently Mount Fuji in Japan. And Dentist James Jay, 74, who finished, along with 51 other septuagenarians and four octogenarians, that 26-mile ribbon of pain, the New York City...
...sites in 34 states for its research center, which will spend an estimated $250 million annually. The consortium, called Sematech, for Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology, includes fierce rivals that have joined forces on chip research in the face of bruising foreign competition. Austin's coup could help make it a Sunbelt Silicon Valley. The capital had $ already attracted a research center for a similar consortium, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corp., which is conducting research in computer architecture and software design...
...such is the case. From the Snowbelt to the Sunbelt, an army of would-be Tarzans and Sheenas, cowboys and cowgirls are riding high in the saddle in their brawny and boxy four-wheelers. Once the choice of rough-riding macho men who used them for off-road hunting and fishing expeditions, jeeps are now favored by suburban squires, teenagers, retirees and women of all ages. Most are using the vehicles to explore the well-paved and not-so-wide-open spaces of the nation's cities and suburbs. "They're easy to spot in a parking lot," notes Phoebe...
...that went into effect Oct. 1 liberalized requirements for owning and carrying a concealed weapon, but inadvertently erased a ban on openly carrying sidearms. Many residents feared that Miami, already saddled with one of the nation's highest homicide rates, would become the Dodge City of the Sunbelt. Some shop owners posted signs warning DON'T CARRY YOUR GUNS IN HERE. Police expressed concern, and the tourist industry faced a hurricane of bad publicity; editorial cartoonists dubbed Florida the "Gunshine State." Said one state representative after the loophole was closed: "I think we've taken the first step to restoring...