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...innocent, so powerful in the hands of a bored or twisted teen who now has an extremely efficient tool for wasting time, cheating on tests, organizing fights, bullying classmates, phoning in bomb threats, arranging drug deals and, more commonly, vamping in a junior-varsity version of Girls Gone Wild. (See pictures of the cell phone's history...
...open the Iron Curtain generally did so with an eyebrow cocked at what was replacing their decayed regimes. In the street markets of Warsaw and Prague in those early years of freedom, the symbols of communism - badges, pins, posters - were sold off, their proceeds helping folk survive in the wild and freewheeling free market. But there was also a knowing embrace of the absurdity of it all. A popular Polish cartoon showed a man clutching a Polish flag stepping out of the jaws of a vicious-looking fish labeled Socjalizm and straight into the open mouth of an equally angry...
...Another trend: a creeping problem in the Midwest. It's true that property markets never went wild in Des Moines, Iowa, or Omaha, Neb., the way they did in Merced, Calif., and Fort Myers, Fla., but this means even modest declines in home values can erase equity, especially for recent buyers who have less of a cushion against falling prices. In Iowa, 18.6% of homeowners have negative equity; in Nebraska the figure is 16.6% (both jumped more than three percentage points from September). (See pictures of struggling Cleveland...
...During the 1960s, social mores shot out the door, and a bonanza of homemade pornography films exploded onto the Yard. Adult video shops are still jam-packed—at least I’m told—with titles like, “Mass Hall: Girls Gone Relatively Wild,” “How Much Are Your Wigglesworth?,” “Green-hos,” “Pennypacker? I Hardly Know Her,” and “Cower at the Tower of Sexual Power as They Plow Her in Mower...
This is probably the coolest design from an artistic perspective ("Where the Wild Things Are"), but we don't really see the Mather connection. Last we heard, the Wild Things (roaches, obvi) made their home mostly in Lowell and Winthrop. Maybe those stalwart creatures have finally found a way to live in solid concrete...