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Dissenting parties will be able to make legal challenges, both within the EPA and in circuit court...

Author: By Brendan R. Linn, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Pollution Threatens Charles | 10/19/2004 | See Source »

Written by James L. White and director Taylor Hackford, Ray traces Charles' career briskly (given the 2-hr. 32-min. running time) and with a persuasive authenticity. Ray hones his chops on the chitlin circuit, signs with Atlantic Records and starts fusing gospel with blues. The epochal What'd I Say--a group orgasm in 12-bar form--could have wed him to rock 'n' roll. But Charles was as voracious for all kinds of music as he was for women. That is, very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Ray of Light on a Blue Genius | 10/18/2004 | See Source »

Three years later, Gale's living room is still dominated by an old picture-tube clunker. He routinely stops in Best Buy and Circuit City stores to compare prices, but the model he craves, a 45-in. cutting-edge liquid-crystal display (LCD) TV, has a $7,000 price tag--twice what Gale is willing to spend. "These things are still prohibitively expensive," Gale laments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flat Chance | 10/18/2004 | See Source »

Sound familiar? While it seems as though hordes of couch potatoes are snapping up the latest displays, the wonders of LCD and plasma TV technology are still well out of reach for the average shopper. True, at retailer Circuit City, sales of flat-TV models have tripled over the past year, prompting CEO W. Alan McCollough to label this Christmas "a flat-panel holiday." But as long as the price tag on a flat-screen TV is four or more times as much as a comparable tube TV, many consumers will drool and dream but not bite. "Prices [of flat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flat Chance | 10/18/2004 | See Source »

...findings. In addition, the report acknowledged the particular importance of strategies aimed at first-year students—who comprise the majority of UHS cases. For many such students, college means access to alcohol for the very first time in their lives. Adding alcohol education to the Freshman Week circuit of safety discussions is a long-overdue first step, but in the case of overeager first-years, it is hardly enough. First-year social events ought to be organized with an eye toward providing alternatives to the late-night party scene, especially during the week prior to the shopping period...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Toasting To a Safer Harvard | 10/14/2004 | See Source »

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