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These bands, as befits the older-skewing VH1, aren't teen pop (several have a circa 1995 alterna-rock sound). But that may not be a bad thing. Despite the success of O-Town and Eden's Crush, that slickly packaged style of music has lately dipped on the charts. Stone and Stanley predict Popstars will be on the air in 10 years, creating bands of different genres to suit each season. But it's hard to imagine, say, a Grungestars, should there be a resurgence in music reliant on at least the appearance of independence...
Otherwise, the loosely defined inner circle consists of four or five highly talented friends, including Jerry Yang and David Filo, whose brainchild grew to world importance in six years. Think of trying to manage the Beatles, circa 1970. "You can't come in and start slashing and cutting," says Lowell Singer, senior new-media analyst at banking and management firm Robertson Stephens, based in San Francisco. "You have to respect the Yahoo culture...
Columbus, Ohio, circa 1963 - can you see how something as ephemeral as a movie might take on some significance...
...evidence comes from the leg bone of a three-year-old child buried in a cemetery 70 miles north of Rome in the empire's waning days, circa A.D. 450. The remains were among some four dozen small skeletons--mostly of infants or stillbirths--excavated there in the early 1990s by University of Arizona archaeologist David Soren and colleagues. Because so many of the babies were preemies, and all seem to have been interred at about the same time, Soren suspected a malaria epidemic...
...actress, Lopez has an assertive allure, and she brings that quality to her videos and to her new CD, J.Lo. Yeah, sure, Love Don't Cost a Thing's theme is borrowed from Madonna (circa her Material Girl phase), and, yes, Lopez is dating Sean ("Puff Daddy") Combs, a rap mogul who can afford to repurchase all the clothes she strips off (or replace them with items from his clothing line). But on J.Lo, even more than on her 1999 debut, On the Six, she throws herself into her role as a singer. Her recipe on such numbers...