They may be America's last pioneers, urban nomads in search of wide open interior spaces.

You can get claustrophobia and agoraphobia - a fear of wide, open spaces - simultaneously on a spacewalk.

If everybody strings barbed wire, what's the point of wide open spaces in Montana? You can't see anything.

Don't think of Diana Vreeland's memoir as a book; it's more like a lunch. A bit of souffle, a glass of champagne, some green grapes - light, bubbly and slightly tart - all served up by an egocentric but inventive hostess.

To me, it was a wonderful, sheltered place to grow up. It had the feeling of wide open spaces, flowers, birds, butterflies.

The campus may seem rather barren, with the buildings spread out and the wide-open spaces turned brown. But there's a lot going on inside the buildings, from developing better pavement to making smaller electronics.