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...Unlike the tobacco industry, which puts giant warning labels on billboard and magazine ads, Q-Tips puts giant warnings only on the back of its packaging. It never runs TV commercials showing cool-looking kids in leather jackets handing each other Q-Tips until one sticks a swab in so deep that blood spurts out. And while Philip Morris gives money to charities and the arts, I ask you to ask yourself if you've ever been handed a program that reads "Q-Tips Presents Verdi's La Traviata." And there aren't any Q-Tips racing teams. That...
...good, Martin says, "but we were concerned that there were too many boy bands around." Jive, the Boys' label, pushed. PoP and Martin relented. And Backstreet flopped. We've Got It Goin' On, co-written by PoP, Martin and fellow songsmith Herbie Crichlow, got only to No. 69 on Billboard's U.S. chart. But Germany fell for the song, and bsb fever swept Europe. The Boys had an edge that bands like Boyzone didn't, and Europeans - well, teenage girls at least - loved it. By mid-'97, America wanted some bsb too, and Quit Playing Games was their breakthrough, Martin...
...experiment without the burden of the Cheiron name. While the split ended a unique ethos - "You walked around, someone said, 'Hey, I need a tambourine,' and you'd do it" - he says it couldn't have lasted forever anyway. One of the studio's big risks was complacency, says Billboard's Nordic bureau chief Kai Lofthus, and now that Martin and Rami have set up their own place, Maratone, "they still have to push and keep on making good music...
...Autonomy is Indonesia's big hope these days. In the center of Sampit, it's extolled on a giant billboard urging locals to support officials who assume power under the new scheme. With the autonomy program, much of Jakarta's former power over finance and administration has been passed down to some 360 regencies?what would be called counties in other countries?and municipalities. It's a radical shift in the way Indonesia is governed, decided upon in direct response to restive populations in Aceh, Irian Jaya and Riau. The autonomy program, however, also encourages resentments and jealousies...
...that also makes it easier for them to comprehend the music their parents used to love. This helps explain the watershed success of the Beatles 1 album, which topped Billboard's album charts for eight weeks and has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide. You don't score numbers like that just from the middle-aged Beatlemaniacs still shaking their imaginary moptops. It requires massive sales to the teenagers and twentysomethings who buy most records. The phenomenon of that album followed the success of Santana's Supernatural, which paired a survivor of the '60s with up-to-the-minute...