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Frank Zappa surely would have appreciated -- indeed, relished -- the irony ! that his death last week was, as the old show-biz line has it, a shrewd career move. The musical iconoclast, best known for his work with the seminal 1960s rock band the Mothers of Invention, was in many ways the prisoner of his own raffish image: hirsute hippie freak; countercultural sire of prototypical Valley Girl Moon Unit Zappa and her siblings Dweezil, Ahmet and Diva; opinionated crank ("AIDS is a CIA plot"); and First Amendment scourge of Tipper Gore. With his death from prostate cancer, a few days short...
...spacefarers did more than salvage a telescope that has cost taxpayers $2.7 billion (including the $693 million repair bill for Endeavour's house call). The astronauts also created a kind of time warp. For a few days, America was back in the 1960s, an era when space was a grand frontier to be tamed, and when NASA's technical brilliance and right-stuff bravado made the agency seem virtually unstoppable as it sent men into orbit and on to the moon...
...that so far both European and Asian competitors have almost entirely missed the fastest-growing market segment of all: vans, trucks and sport-utility vehicles. In the past decade, although car sales have been 30% off their 1985 peak and have suffered two of their poorest years since the 1960s, the truck and van market has exploded to 60% of car sales...
...abatements are not an entirely new phenomenon. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s some states and a few municipalities hit upon the idea that they could encourage local businesses to expand by offering a partial rebate of additional property taxes or user fees that such an expansion might incur...
Where the programs of the 1960s and 1970s might be characterized as fertilizing one's economic garden, those of today resemble nothing more than rustling your neighbors' cattle...