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...Science fiction is enjoying something of a renaissance in recent years. Following in the footsteps of Star Wars and Star Trek are series and films such as Babylon 5, a remake of Lost in Space, Wing Commander, and numerous others. All have sought to profit from the lucrative sci-fi craze, but in the end, only the two original combatants deserve our attention...
...time I would write, I had notebooks, and I'd never keep them because I was traveling. I think it was just the act of writing that I really enjoyed. I would write constantly. And I never really kept anything until my first book, Breakfast in Babylon when I decided that I needed to keep some of it. But I was ready then. I was preparing the ground. It didn't matter that what I was writing wasn't any good. I was writing for my pleasure...
...Crabgrass Frontier, the essential history of suburbanization, Kenneth T. Jackson quotes a letter to the King of Persia, inscribed on a clay tablet and dated 539 B.C., that describes the pleasures of the Ur-suburb. (Literally. It was in Ur.) "Our property...is so close to Babylon that we enjoy all the advantages of the city, and yet when we come home we are away from all the noise and dust...
They know it's only filthy lucre, but they like it. Demonstrating exactly how grownup they have become, the members of the ROLLING STONES have announced that they are postponing the British leg of their Bridges to Babylon tour on the advice of their accountants. Because of a new wrinkle in British tax law, if the Stones make any money from the tour in Britain, they would have to pay taxes on the whole tour, which means it would end up costing them $20 million to perform four dates at home. The Stones will tour Britain eventually, just as soon...
...Bruises to the ribs and chest of cadaverous guitarist KEITH RICHARDS have forced the Rolling Stones to postpone the European leg of their Bridges to Babylon tour for at least four days. The injury was suffered while Richards was reaching for a book in the library of his Connecticut home. Doctors say he's day to day. We're surprised about the library...