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DIED. DOUGLAS ADAMS, 49, British-born author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series and other philosophical whimsies; of a heart attack; in Santa Barbara, Calif. His 1979 novel about interplanetary travelers, which began as a BBC radio series, sold more than 14 million copies worldwide...
Unlike many contemporary memoirists, Susan Travers waited to write her first book until its publication would no longer cause a scandal. At 91, the British-born Travers can rest easy. Tomorrow to Be Brave (Bantam Press; 287 pages) won't damage any careers or break any hearts. The book, which tells the fascinating story of the only woman ever to serve in the French Foreign Legion, is a rich, rewarding read. The Legion takes recruits from all over the world, subjects them to grueling training in some of the bleakest spots on earth and spits them out, five years later...
HONORED. ELIZABETH TAYLOR, 68, British-born, oft-divorced American star, by Queen Elizabeth II, 74, with the title of Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire; in London...
This debut CD crackles and sparks like diary pages set on fire. Naess is a 24-year-old British-born singer-songwriter who now lives in New York City. Her music draws on folk and rock, and some of her songs are subtly propelled by tape loops. Her voice has an evanescent grace that will remind some of Beth Orton; her lyrics, in contrast, often have the confessional bluntness of Liz Phair. The best songs on this album--the sweetly numb title track, the jangling All I Want--are dreamlike but not soporific, confident yet not overpowering...
...British-born Canadian, Gladwell, 36, started thinking about the large consequences of marginal actions while working on a story about the crime rate in New York City. William Bratton, then the city's police commissioner, was a believer in the "broken windows" theory, which says such big crimes as assault and robbery happen where small decay, like litter and graffiti, is tolerated. To ward off shootings and break-ins, Bratton cracked down on things like public urination and subway spray painting, a tactic that explains at least part of the city's crime drop in the 1990s...