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...needle hits 95 now. Sure, it's a bit fast, but you've just parachuted in from a big East Coast city where you get tickets for parking in front of your own house, and this wide-open liberty is making you crazy. The Rockies spin out of the ground like the spurs of a boot, and a herd of antelope is grazing along a bend in the Missouri River. Willie Nelson and Ray Charles come on the radio to sing Seven Spanish Angels, and it seems prudent, if not reasonable, to nose...
...place worked in another. These "open" standards were one of the charms of the original Web. Every one of its millions of pages could be read by any browsing program. Opening a page was as straightforward (and error-free) as opening a novel. No more. Both firms, intent on boosting market share, have loaded their programs with noncompatible features, so data configured for Netscape can look like mush on Explorer. As exciting as it is to see such slick Web products, it's sad to see the Net's wide-open ethos finally evaporate...
...ranch was just a getaway, but Reagan the actor knew how to turn a piece of dirt into a stage for a simple cowboy, gamboling in the wide-open spaces, in touch with the eternal verities. The place is already Disneyfied: Climb Mount Rhino, the resting place of the family pets as well as Ronnie's steed Little Man! Visit Heart Rock, where Ronnie and Nancy carved their initials! See where Queen Elizabeth slept! Launch a boat on Lake Lucky, the pond where Reagan kept his goldfish! But don't expect Wally World, or even the run of the place...
Only in the digital age can an outfit go from worst to first so quickly. In the past 24 months, AOL has dodged everything from a Bill Gates bull rush (his Microsoft Network spent millions to compete with AOL) to a tussle with the Internet, whose wide-open spaces threatened to make AOL's narrower "gated community" irrelevant. Case, 39, has been famously (if inadvertently) self-destructive, infuriating AOL members by offering too little capacity and too many headaches. Overeager users have crashed parts of the service twice in the past year by bombarding it with more calls than computers...
...crack down on overfishing in U.S. waters. Perhaps even more impressive, the U.N. has produced a tough-minded treaty that promises to protect stocks of fish that straddle the coastal zones of two or more countries or migrate, as bluefin tuna and swordfish do, through international waters in the wide-open oceans. The treaty will take effect, however, only after 30 or more nations ratify it--and even then, some question how diligently its provisions will be enforced...