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...Chris Trapper...
Although his Afghanistan essay, “Lion in Winter,” might appear to be the most relevant and timely, his most important point resides in his other essays, primarily the title essay on forest fire-fighting and a historical essay on a nineteenth-century fur-trapper. Junger offers a valuable lesson for life in post-Sept. 11 America: what heroism really means...
...strange mutation, spinning off a flat-out comedy from a serious drama. (Lou Grant and Trapper John, M.D., for instance, spun the opposite way.) The creators decided to make The Lone Gunmen a sort of spoof of the '60s spy genre. "All of us grew up around the same time," says Carter. "We loved Wild Wild West, Mission: Impossible, The Man from U.N.C.L.E." The Gunmen are a good bit closer to Maxwell Smart than Napoleon Solo as they drive a beat-up VW microbus and stumble onto government cover-ups and corporate conspiracies...
Getting students organized used to mean buying a Trapper Keeper and hoping homework didn't fall out. But this fall a handful of schools have supplied students with the same wireless Palm Pilots used by hyper-scheduled executives. More portable and less pricey--$200, vs. about $2,000--than the laptops doled out by schools in recent years, the hand-held computers give students Internet access and allow teachers to "beam" them their grades and homework assignments. Add-ons include a "due yesterday" feature that dings when schoolwork is tardy and an attachable probe that measures pH in science labs...
...many nations," and in the embrace of his rhetoric (bombast that would go gossamer, radiant with the genius of his ardor, his generosity), he became endlessly specific about each trade, and put in motion, Homerically, each deckhand, stevedore, scholar, prostitute, drunkard, slave, "Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff," policeman, suicide, trapper, blacksmith, ploughboy, carpenter, contralto, spinning-girl, machinist, squaw, paving-man, flatboatman, fare-collector... on and on, the vast catalog of individualities making...