Word: clearing
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...peace restored--by a handsome blond family of new human farmers. It's a tiny change, a couple of minutes in all, but a baffling one that squares with neither history nor Orwell's vision. Who are these interlopers? The Czars? Boris Yeltsin? The IMF? It's not clear. But surely the implication--that the masses' self-rule was a foolish aberration--is not one the author, who nearly died fighting for democracy in the Spanish Civil War, would have considered a feel-good send...
...music. In the 1950s, a Beaumont, Texas, deejay named J.P. Richardson stepped into his on-air radio persona, the Big Bopper, and scored a hit single, Chantilly Lace. And in the 1970s, David Bowie took on the role of Ziggy Stardust, an otherworldly rock-'n'-roller. Brooks makes it clear he's just playing a role, not living it or attempting some full Andy Kaufmanesque submersion. He may have recorded a rock CD, but he makes no claims that he's a rocker. "I'm a country artist," he says, "and very proud of that." His NBC special, Garth Brooks...
Fifty is also a good age to have a sigmoidoscopy, in which a doctor inserts a flexible tube into the lower third of the colon to look for polyps or tumors. If the lining is clear, you won't have to undergo the procedure again for five years...
...please put heavy emphasis on the words could and almost. A gathering of TIME's Board of Economists, which met in San Francisco and was largely composed of specialists in the workings of nearby Silicon Valley, left a clear message: members were not at all prepared to forecast for the country an automatic or painless ascent into an Internet nirvana...
That sludge dump next door that the Environmental Protection Agency says is safe? One expert at the Centers for Disease Control recommends you keep clear...