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...going to leave you a country where you can't climb every mountain, fjord every stream, follow every rainbow until you find your dream," he said, borrowing liberally form the musical, "The Sound of Music...
Maybe I should climb those floodlit Widener steps again. Not in order to look backward or recapture what was, but to look forward and conceive of what still...
Regression? Perhaps. But next time I climb those steps, I promise I won't climb them alone...
...when they are grownups but kids at heart, they gravitate to the Warner Studio Stores. At a Warner outlet a few steps from the Disney emporium in Atlanta's Lenox Square shopping complex, the place is crawling with twentysomethings. At the back of the store, children can climb into Marvin's Rocket Ride and take a push-button blast through the solar system; but kids are scarce here: 85% of the customers are adults. Heather Bamberg, 24, forages until she finds a gift for her godchild: a cap with the Tasmanian Devil logo. More often, though, Bamberg shops for herself...
...hard after hours, mostly with fellow workers. They mate, if that's the word, mostly in one-night stands. When they air their lives out, it's with ski holidays and ecotourism, not yachting or casino crawling. With salaries for researchers that start at about $90,000 and can climb well over $500,000 for those who excel, they could afford to dress with the flash of yesterday's gunslingers. Most don't. An atypical Merrill Lynch computer jock keeps a 360-hp speedboat in Westport, Connecticut. This appears to embarrass him, and he blusters, "That...