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Although this song is pretty vanilla and boring, the road trip-themed video is the cutting edge. At one point, Jesse, who may or may not be related to his dad Paul, gets his car towed by a fat person on a tractor, who takes him to a beach where there is a party with girls (Jesse holds hands with them). Sometimes he wears sunglasses but sometimes, he has blonde hair. He is a gorgeous child...

Author: By Leon Neyfakh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Total' Eclipse of the Heart | 2/24/2005 | See Source »

...students of English gardening will know, that's a man-made landscape feature, a trench dug to conceal a fence in order to preserve the view. The nuns have one on the grounds of their convent, which Howie loves to approach at perilous speeds on his tractor mower. We go right to the edge with him, and even if we're not always laughing, we're glad to be along for the ride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Moving Beyond Words | 1/23/2005 | See Source »

...vegetables, mostly in California, with great results in terms of yield. He asked California-based Trimble, a navigation technology company, to design for him a GPS that would work for the hulking machines of grain country. That fall, Mitchell installed the Trimble AgGPS AutoPilot guidance system on his tractor, making his farm the first in the Midwest to use auto-steering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Change Agent: Farm Of the Future | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

With time to spare in the cab, Mitchell decided to turn his tractor into a rolling office. In 2002, he established a wireless network for the farm using specialized 2.4-GHz NavCom Safari Network radios for high-speed Internet access. As a result, Mitchell can surf the Web for weather conditions and stock prices and download aerial images from anywhere on the farm. Because the network also provides a mechanism for remote machine monitoring and controlling, he can check on his grain bins to see how the product is drying and even make transfers from miles away. "Last fall, someone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Change Agent: Farm Of the Future | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...blue-state born and bred, Ohio felt like home, and our trips like homecomings. I snapped beans from my grandparents’ garden into a bowl in my lap so we could eat them for dinner. My grandfather took my brother and me for rides on his tractor. I learned to pitch horseshoes. On the first Sunday in August, there was always a reunion of my grandmother’s family, when you could look up from your great aunt’s Jell-O salad (lime, with grated carrots) into eyes that were the same blue as your...

Author: By Phoebe Kosman, | Title: What Happened in Winesburg | 11/22/2004 | See Source »

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