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...already happening. On Memorial Day weekend, Austin, Texas, drew 500 people to its third Burning Flipside; San Francisco has a single-night party every month; and there was a burn under a bridge in New York City earlier this year. Now Harvey is talking to people in Japan and Europe who are intent on organizing their own festivals. "I'd like to change the f______ world, and I think we've got a good shot at it," he says as a beautiful woman in a tight shirt who calls herself Zen Paradise places an ashtray at his knees. Frederick...
...Friday-night lights begin to burn on another high school football season, a not-so-quiet revolution is emerging in Southern states, where prayers are considered as much a part of football as Frito pies and hot chocolate. In nearly two dozen season openers earlier this month, students and religious groups came up with ingenious ways to protest--and in some instances, defy--the court's decision. For the faithful in the Christian heartland, praying on game night is the latest in a series of new constitutional maneuvers to circumvent laws that they consider to be secular oppression. Already...
Forest fires come and go. But this year's may be the worst in a half-century; they could prove to be the worst ever recorded. Some 6.5 million acres have already burned, and by the end of last week, 68 large fires were burning in 10 states. Almost everyone agrees the fires are not normal, not part of the harmonious burn-and-regenerate cycle of nature in business for itself. Brittlely dry heat and lightning without moisture, abetted sometimes by man-made sparks, started the fires. Could past human errors, activating a law of unintended consequences, be to blame...
...real worry is Amazon's debt load--which ballooned from $1.5 billion at the end of 1999 to $2.1 billion at the end of June--as the company continues to burn money. Amazon stock has nose-dived $50 since the year began, from about $89. Most employees' stock options are stuck below the price at which they were issued. "My mom calls me up and says, 'My God, David, is everything O.K.?'" says Amazon senior vice president David Risher, laughing...
Whatever lead paint is left in the house has been painted over. There may be some lead leaching into the water from old plumbing joints, but we drink mostly bottled water. And we don't often burn candles; some wicks contain lead that can reach toxic levels. The biggest source of lead here is Rachel's stained-glass studio in the basement. But Brennan declared himself "wickedly impressed" by the exhaust fan, respirator, fume collector and gloves Rachel uses when she works...