Word: traps
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...cyberspace and know whereof they speak. One of them is Clifford Stoll-a gangly, wild-haired astronomer who got his first modem in 1971 and jacked it into the Internet's precursor, the Arpanet. His 1989 book The Cuckoo's Egg, which told how he used the Net to trap some German hacker spies, was the first Internet-related best seller. How does he feel now about the place he helped popularize...
Motel Blues is a series of episodes in the lives of photographer Jarred (Jay Heath) and his vapid girlfriend Flee (Angelina Zappia), who have travelled to a remote rat-trap hotel in the desert so that Jarred can complete a project. It quickly becomes clear, however, that their relationship is strained and distrustful; the ugly monotony of their surroundings matches the emptiness of their bizarre conversations The strain is increased by Jarred's evident contempt for Flee's favorite activities, reading fashion magazines and eating junk food...
Much to our relief, Coupland doesn't fall into this "Generation X" trap. His latest work suffers from a more common and in some ways more frustrating malady. The biggest problem with Coupland's book isn't its trendiness; Life After God simply suffers from vagueness...
...Jesus Seminar, which seem determined to offend at all costs. The seminar is the invention of onetime Protestant clergyman Robert W. Funk, who now runs a Bible think tank, the Westar Institute. Since the mainstream press rarely covers the esoterica of New Testament criticism, he set an irresistible trap: he would gather "eminent" scholars, and they would put the events in the Bible to a vote. He passes around a white plastic container, and each scholar drops in a colored marble: black if he or she is certain the event was fabricated, gray if it probably was, pink...
...when Namibia won independence in 1990, one of its first acts as a nation was to kick out the greedy Spanish. Canadian officials discovered that the seized Spanish vessel had been fitted with a second bottom for tons of illicit catch, and that it possessed illegal secondary nets to trap protected species. Many sources inside the EU say privately that there is "a lot of admiration for what Canada did." But at the same time, these sources recognize the political reality: that Europe's public admonition of Canada is "a question of political principle that left the EU with...