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...perfect global pop star, the result would be nothing like Daler Mehndi. There's his look?black beard, bejeweled turban and belly surfing over his waistband. There's his halting English, his insistence on singing in Punjabi and his tongue-tangling name, pronounced "Dlurr Maindy." Then there are his '80s-style videos, pulsing with primitive arcade-game effects and joyful dancers in jumpsuits. And yet in the late '90s, fresh from a stint driving a cab in Berkeley, California, Mehndi became Asia's biggest-ever pop export...
...Apparently, not completely, as revelations pouring out of Seoul this month have revealed. One centers around an idle TRIGA Mark III research reactor located in a dilapidated building in a residential suburb of Seoul. In the 1970s and '80s, the TRIGA Mark III was used by Korean nuclear scientists to test nuclear fuel and study isotopes. In April or May 1982, scientists took an irradiated test fuel rod from the reactor and placed it in one of the research installation's "hot cells," a room clad with lead to block radioactivity. Using robotic arms and peering through a leaded window...
Chou and Stroll have grown confident in their ability to predict changing consumer tastes and then to satisfy the new appetite. It sounds simple, but just how do you dress 100 million Americans? "Every generation of consumers has a specific taste," says Chou. "In the '80s it was Waspy, which is what Ralph Lauren delivered. Then in the '90s the urban and street look took off, and Tommy Hilfiger owned that. Today the consumer is swinging back. They want smart casual...
...PINOCHET, 88, Chilean President from 1973 to 1990; of immunity from prosecution, in a 9-8 vote by Chile's Supreme Court; in Santiago. The decision opens the way for a possible trial on charges of human-rights abuses for Pinochet's crackdown on dissidents in the 1970s and '80s in which at least 19 Chileans are believed to have died...
...Aging's study on exceptional survival, "we are interested in looking for some kind of genetic component to longevity." Her approach is to look at family members, especially the children, of centenarians. Says Perls, who does similar research: "Kids of centenarians who are in their 70s and early 80s are very much following in the footsteps of their parents, with a 60% reduced risk of heart disease, stroke and diabetes. They are the model for successful aging and a great group to study...