My two home towns

Redlands, California (view out the window from my dad's house, orange groves across the street) Beijing, China (view out the window from our apartment, just before I left) Out the other side of the house in Redlands: Life is not fair. (Although it is true that when I was a kid in the 1960s, inland southern California had smog problems just above as grave as in the middle picture above. We'll consider this grounds for hope.)

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2008/04/my-two-home-towns/7998/