For us, it would be the final step toward status as a major American city. We're already a major city, but this would be the icing on the cake.

Not a lick. It has almost no importance in shaping moral conduct.

I have trouble gripping the cell phone.

It was never big enough, never spectacular enough and never unique enough to really be worthy of anybody's attention. The real estate's valuable, the building isn't.

These principles have now grown stale and even archaic. Environmentalism is a set of values, not the Ten Commandments. As a value system, it has to compete for adherents.

They are post-literate, twelve-images-per-second beings.