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...sure, there are play structures that are unsafe. Many built before the 1970s were little more than steel towers over bare asphalt. "A lot of the playgrounds we grew up on were really kind of instruments of torture," says Kathryn Dresslar, a legislative aide who helped bring about new California regulations. In 1999, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, a quarter of a million American kids went from playgrounds to emergency rooms...
Considering the circumstances, their behavior is not surprising. These days, many professional players are scouted when they are just kids imitating Jordan on asphalt courts, coddled by agents and tempting offers when they are still just pimple-faced teens, and treated like hot commodities by the time they graduate high school. It's enough to give any kid a big head. While the drug policy has its flaws, the prospect of no policy seems like a recipe for disaster...
...There was beauty as well as provocation in this new aesthetic. William Klein's video installation, Broadway by Light, captures the kinetic grace of Times Square's dancing lights as reflected on the surface of passing cars and wet asphalt. Rudy Burckhardt's photograph of an enormous Coca-Cola billboard dwarfing pedestrians on the street below is a masterpiece of black and white composition. Nor did the pop generation shrink from taking on the most traditional of subjects. In Wesselmann's Great American Nude No. 54, a painted female form sprawls beside a 3-D radiator, a telephone...
...There is no surprise in continuing attacks on Serb civilians in Kosovo by Albanian extremists. This was not the first, nor will it be the last. But what was significant about this attack was the technique - a remote-controlled antitank mine buried in the asphalt. This goes way beyond the concept of "random revenge attacks." It required a high level of technical sophistication and organization. And that means it was a message to KFOR, too - that the NATO-led peacekeeping force is also vulnerable. Those who carried out this attack could just as easily have blown up a KFOR vehicle...
...ANGELO VOODOO Slick as chicken grease. Hotter than summer asphalt. D'Angelo summoned old ghosts--Jimi and Marvin--and woke up a new artistic spirit in R. and B. Voodoo (Virgin) is a menage a trois of soul, hip-hop and jazz, all tangled up like lovers caught in the act. Even as D'Angelo pays homage to music's past, he proves the future is in good hands...