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PRINCETON, N.J.--Leaving Philadelphia on 1-76, there's a billboard advertising Temple basketball...
...Winning is an attitude," the billboard proclaims. "Temple basketball on 91.1 WCWR...
...crossover potential of the new aural hybrids is obvious on Mickey Hart's Planet Drum, a dazzling display of rhythmic virtuosity performed by the Grateful Dead drummer and a super group of percussionists from Nigeria, Brazil and India. Planet Drum, which has been No. 1 on the Billboard World Music chart for the past nine weeks, is a rollicking time machine, at once archaic and up-to-the-second, primal and technologically smart. In songs like Udu Chant, Temple Caves and Dance of the Hunter's Fire, the players coax a torrent of tattoos and flowing rhythms from a battery...
...says Times Square has lost its famous gaudy sparkle? At 11:53 p.m. on New Year's Eve, Coca-Cola flipped on the switch to launch its contribution to Broadway's born-again glitz: a $3 million, 55-ton billboard featuring a four- story Coke bottle made of fiber glass. A high-tech version of the Coke sign that has reigned in various Times Square locations for 75 years, the billboard contains a mile of neon tubing, 60 miles of optical fiber and more than 13,000 incandescent light bulbs. Controlled by a robotic animation system, the giant bottle pops...
...taking entrepreneurial days, was not particularly useful in running an international company with long-term ambitions and an estimated worth well in excess of $7 billion. The businessman who three times in his life had leveraged almost everything he owned and borrowed heavily -- to buy back his father's billboard company, to start CNN and to purchase MGM -- says he came to believe he did not "have to take desperate gambles anymore...