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...looking anxiously for any signs of mid-career slippage, she found it in the weak air play of Loverboy, the first single off her Glitter album. The star's friend said Carey was "extremely concerned" that the song languished in the mid-60s of Billboard's Hot 100 chart. Finally Loverboy ascended to No. 2, beneath today's hotties a trois, Destiny's Child. Carey could get trampled by the children's crusade...
...chart the hazards, environmental consultants Halff Associates and HBC Engineering/Terracon pored over Sanborn Fire Insurance maps from the late 1800s and old city directories to locate chemical warehouses, junkyards and gas stations. Engineers walked the property with equipment that detected heavy-metal deposits, then bored some 600 holes and collected more than 5,000 soil and water samples. A color-coded map showed the worst problems: pink for lead and arsenic, green for petroleum and purple for benzo(a)pyrene, a carcinogenic by-product of garbage incineration...
...fame. But even when ranting, 'N Sync wields its pop hooks like weapons; they nail every chorus, emote feverishly on the ballads and hedge their bets on the whole pop thing by bouncing between techno, two-step, hip-hop and any other style Billboard might one day have a chart for. Slick and stupid? Sure. But it will make you dance. 'N Sync is probably all right with that...
...imitation of Hollywood.” That is, until you realized that Bollywood churns out hundreds more movies, songs, and music videos per year than its American counterpart and runs circles around Tinseltown in terms of gross revenues. Hindi movies constantly sell out theatres, and their soundtracks are the chart-toppers at music stores around the country. The differences between the fortunes of of the two entertainment industries are especially acute during a summer in which the American box office tries to squeeze profits from such gems as The Mummy Returns and The Animal. (Rob Schneider, your game?...
...future is more likely to arrive at your local supermarket than Webvan-style 100,000-sq.-ft. distribution centers. Safeway and Albertsons are preparing to roll out what is known as the "store-pick" model--you order online, and a professional shopper (O.K., a teenager with a produce chart) picks out the goods at your nearest supermarket, as opposed to a dedicated warehouse. Then you either get same-day delivery for a fee (in urban areas, where it makes financial sense) or go fetch it (in rural areas, where it doesn...