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CRUNCH TIME FOR CD-ROM MAKERS...
Crosby wishes for a computer with a CD Rom, so that she can begin working at home toward her GED. According to Schultz, adult basic education programs are difficult for her to attend because they are often not wheelchair-accessible and she has a learning disability in addition to her head injury...
...back for the entire six-hour flight to Buenos Aires. World Christmas (Metro Blue) features artists from a number of time zones, including Cape Verdean vocalist Cesaria Evora. There's also a Celtic Christmas II (Windham Hill); A Brasilian Christmas (Astor Place); and Festival of Light (Six Degrees), a CD for Hanukkah with the Dutch band Flairck. Even the Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo De Silos have a seasonal CD: Christmas Chants (Jade). Still, some of the best holiday music is all-American--Jazz for Joy (Verve), with Abbey Lincoln and others; Blessed Quietness (Atlantic), with pianist Cyrus Chestnut...
...major holiday film (Houston in The Preacher's Wife, Streisand in The Mirror Has Two Faces and Madonna in Evita), and each is featured on the sound track of her film. Houston's Preacher (in stores Nov. 12) represents a change of pace for the mainstream megastar. Half the CD is pop, and half is gospel, a genre that should provide Houston with a vocal challenge worthy of her abilities. Streisand's Mirror (Nov. 12) also offers a mix; it's mostly music from the movie score, plus two pallid numbers by Bryan Adams (a duet with Barbra) and Richard...
...read about the life-style of nerds?" people asked Louis and his partner Jane Metcalfe. It took them two long years to raise backing for the magazine. The pundits of publishing said Wired shouldn't be a print magazine. "They said we should be doing the next big thing: CD-ROMs." He ignored them, and three years later his publication is not only required reading among the digerati, but is thick with ads. Nobody digs a guy who beats conventional wisdom...