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...environmental nightmares strike a more frightening chord than Chernobyl. It is not merely the radioactive mess left by the 1986 meltdown. Six years later, 19 similar graphite-moderated nuclear time bombs are still ticking away, alarming relics of a badly designed, haplessly run nuclear-power program that none of the independent republics of the former Soviet Union can afford to shut down. The potential killers bring light, heat and power to parts of Russia, Ukraine and Lithuania, where their immediate decommissioning would create unacceptable economic disruption and even civil unrest...
Charles' second front is architecture, and in this field he has won his most popular success. He inherited many of his father's gadfly, curmudgeonly qualities, and when he started railing against the ugliness of London's skyline and new buildings that looked like carbuncles, he struck a chord in the common man. This month he opened his own Institute for Architecture near London's Regent's Park, which will offer courses toward a degree in the field and will serve as a gathering point for conferences...
...original wild man of rock 'n' roll struck a chord with the tiny-bopper set last year with a rambunctious rendition of Itsy Bitsy Spider that appeared on For Our Children, a benefit album for pediatric AIDS victims. Now he's back with Shake It All About, a collection of 12 children's classics all done up in Little Richard's flagrantly flamboyant style. He turns On Top of Spaghetti into a rhythm-and-blues lament, raps his way through If You're Happy and You Know It and performs a funky, fanny-wiggling version of The Hokey Pokey...
...study jazz at a conservatory. He dropped out after a single - semester. By then he was jamming with Art Pepper and Dexter Gordon. When he met up with Coleman at a club in Hollywood, he was primed for takeoff. "The traditional way of improvising in jazz is on the chord structure," he says. "But sometimes I would want to improvise on the inspiration, the feeling rather than the chords. And that's what Ornette was doing...
...next song, "Sugar Kane," alternates Sonic Youth's trademark minor up-down chord progression with guitar free-for-alls--complete with requisite distortion and ample feedback. Moore's voice complements it all well...