ABSTRACT

When you are traveling all the time you tend to be superficial,” Harold lamented, “You have to be/5 Aside from a few “freelance” reporters who produce investigative articles for magazines like Rolling Stone, Vogue^ the New Yorker, and alternative media, most parachuters do not have time for background research or independent investigation. In fact, parachute “research” usually consists of little more than reading news clippings, most of which are also written by parachuters.