en being there yourself"—that is, with little emotional connection. Not long afterward, Lanier began tak- ing classes in math and chemistry at New Mexico State University. At seventeen, he transferred to Bard College, in New York To cover the down payment on his tu- ition, he sold fresh milk and cheese from a herd o

's son." Anwar al-Awlaki was born in 1971 in Las Cruces, New Mexico, where Nasser was earning a master's degree in agricultural economics from New Mexico State University. As an adult, he lived in Colorado and Virginia, becoming an imam at an Islamic center in Falls Church. After September 11th, he began peddling the