Perpetual Gridlock

by Lleu Christopher

Are cars really the guarantors of our freedom, allowing us autonomy at the push of a pedal? Why do we never question the power the car has over us? If our technology tends to determine our mode of thinking, is there a way out of this mental gridlock which has become our world?

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The Woes of Kosovo

by Todd Paul

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President Clinton has asked Congress for an additional $6 million for further action in Kosovo. Why is only $500,000 going to humanitarian aid? Why does the U.S. continue to make a blazing hell of Serbia?

The Wake of Invisible Traffic

by Dennis Doherty

"Imagine not just the scariness, but the magic of it, in the context of human history: that in the twentieth century a person can be deposited on a pinprick of dirt in the middle of a wilderness, and within three minutes-in the time that it takes a kid to pee and zip up-lose all contact with the transport and company that brought him there, alone, afoot, as if sprung out of the ground." Notes on the road…

The Great Midnight Cadillac by Frank Crocitto

When is a car not just a car? Frank Crocitto visits the rich fields of memory to weave a tale about a young man and a car that was more than a car, the young man's friend , the Vespa with the sidecar, Nancy the dumb blonde, "The Shebang," kindly Aunt Grace, the young man's friend's shapeless girlfriend who [foreshadowing] causes an irreperable rift between the young man and the young man's friend and why so many people got hit by trains in the old days.

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Love-N-War by Eric Francis

In 1997, a Presidential sex scandal broke; in 1998, a President was impeached for a few blow-jobs; in 1999 we're busy bombing Yugoslavia even though nobody seems to understand why, and high school students are again shooting each other with automatic weapons. Perhaps part of the problem we face is wrapped up in the dichotomy of love and war. Eric Francis postulates what might happen if we called up 33,000 of our fittest young people and sent them to Europe-not to kill, but to make love, "a kind of sex intervention." With monthly horoscopes.

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