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By Kathrine Russell - December 08, 2002

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In the day we sweat it out in the streets of a runaway American dream.

-Bruce Springsteen, "Born to Run"

And I said, "That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on living in hopes of catching it once and for all."

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road

One of the first American ideals was that of the rugged…

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