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There are few landscapes in the United States lonelier than that of western Nevada. Towns remote outposts connected by endless, thin ribbons of highway are named for what miners used to pull out of the ground: Coaldale, Silverpeak, Goldfield. But the mining industry in places like Mineral County has largely disappeared, and with it, the towns it gave birth to. Those that arent ghost towns already cling precariously to life, burned-out and abandoned structures at their margins creeping inexorably toward the center like some scabrous and fatal disease. For many, its just a matter of time; even those hamlets that still have a few hundred people living in them are sometimes left off of state road maps. For someone whos attracted to desolate places and question marks on big, empty-looking maps someone like myself this was a part of the country I had to see for myself.
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"AT&T has "asked' its employees to fake it in the fight against Net Neutrality. The companys top policy officer sent a memo to workers on Monday urging them to hide their company affiliation before posting anti-Net Neutrality comments to the Federal Communication Commissions Web site.
We encourage you, your family and friends to join the voices telling the FCC not to regulate the Internet, AT&T Senior Executive Vice President James Cicconi wrote in an internal communiqué forwarded to Free Press (and posted here). It can be done through a personal e-mail account by going to www.openinternet.gov and clicking on the Join the Discussion link.
"Coming from one of the companys most senior executives, its hard to imagine AT&T employees thinking the memo was merely a suggestion."
