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When Pigs Wi-Fi

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By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Published: August 7, 2005

HERMISTON, Ore.

This is cowboy country, where the rodeo is coming to town, the high school's 'kiss the pig' contest involves a genuine hog, and life seems about as high-tech as the local calf-dressing competition, when teams race to wrestle protesting calves into T-shirts.
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But Hermiston is actually a global leader of our Internet future. Today, this chunk of arid farm country appears to be the largest Wi-Fi hot spot in the world, with wireless high-speed Internet access available free for some 600 square miles. Most of that is in eastern Oregon, with some just across the border in southern Washington."