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...From the time you played at that block dance, to the time you played at a nightclub, to the day you got a record deal, to the day you had a number-one album, to the day you played ten nights at the local arena. It continued to get bigger and better and continued to be more fulfilling. I don't use these road makers to pat myself on the back. They are all just anther asterisk in the book somewhere. To me the story is just not going to be told for another thirty years. I think a career...
...what could be the world's most advanced experiment in rainmaking - or, as it's known in weather circles, cloud seeding. It's the practice of injecting clouds with a foreign substance, usually silver iodide, salt or dry ice, to make the the cloud's water or ice particles bigger and yield more rain. The technique has been used in different parts of the world for more than 60 years, with varying success. But the improvement of weather technology - and an enduring human interest in trying to play with the sky - has kept the practice afloat during times of hard...
...Finally there's something Coulter and I can agree on. She is a bigger jerk than liberal men! Do her handlers make sure that she gets her rabies and distemper shots? I swear I saw her foaming at the mouth the other day. Ann, honey, chill. Go home. Bake something. Put on a sexy negligee for your husband. Oh, I forgot. You're too manly for that stuff. Linda Doebler, LEWISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA...
...Cheating isn't epidemic - the Education Ministry has disqualified only 392 students so far this year - but it is an outgrowth of a bigger problem: the severe shortage of university places. Vietnam's higher-education system hasn't expanded fast enough to meet the demand from students eager to get ahead in Asia's second fastest-growing economy (after China). Nguyen Thu Phuong, 18, studied for more than a year for the exams, and was poring over a few last-minute math equations on a bench shortly before testing began. Her mother, anxiously fanning the girl as she studied, once...
...balance a good thing, that they clear the cobwebs from dusty corners of the economy. But that doesn't mean they need or deserve a huge tax break. Tax breaks aren't free. Lower taxes on Stephen Schwarzman mean either higher taxes on somebody else or a bigger national debt...