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Turn on the TV today, though, and you'll find videos for our music everywhere. We call them commercials. The Smiths' melancholy anthem How Soon Is Now? sells Nissan sedans; the Buzz-cocks' acid What Do I Get? shills Toyotas; Devo's arch Beautiful World pitches for Target. Mercedes even uses the Violent Femmes' ultra-obscure It's Gonna Rain in a spot for a convertible, though more people may have bought DeLoreans than listened to this song in its first life...
...right away. A shimmering monument of white, it floats above the shabby city of Agra. From afar, the Taj Mahal is as beautiful as the poets promise?a glowing tribute to obsessive adoration and a symbol of India around the world. But up close the picture begins to crumble. Acid rain and condensation from the former Mughal capital's coke-fueled factories and, environmentalists say, a nearby oil refinery are eating away the marble and turning what remains the color of unloved teeth. The famous canals and watercourses stink. Garbage abounds. And attempts at preservation have proved ineffectual, clumsy...
...violent rioting and attempting to seriously injure a policeman. "What happened was not a spontaneous outburst of violence," Landahl says. "It was planned." Five more suspected Danish AFA activists were arrested before the summit began, after a police raid of their apartment turned up explosives and cans of acid. Genoese intelligence experts are monitoring an AFA website that details some protest plans for Genoa--where AFA's activities will mostly be carried out by members from Spain and France...
FORTIFYING RESULTS Just two years after folic acid, a B vitamin, was added to many grain products in the U.S., certain birth defects of the brain and spine are down 19%. Enriched food provides about a quarter of the 400 micrograms a day that experts say women of childbearing age need. The rest can come from supplements, hyperfortified cereals and leafy green vegetables...
What the new fem foods have in common is that they all trumpet nutrients that benefit women in particular, from the tried and true, such as calcium for preventing osteoporosis and folic acid for staving off birth defects, to sexy newcomers like soy, which is popularly believed to fight breast cancer and relieve the symptoms of menopause, though this is still unproved...