Word: deltas
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...afterward. In February, a 10-year-old girl was struck down with DVT after a 13-hour flight from London to Hong Kong, during which she slept in an economy-class seat without moving. Since the beginning of the year, separate DVT suits have been filed against Cathay Pacific, Delta Airlines, Air France and Greece's Olympic Airlines. Australian Anthony Sharp's case against Cathay claims the 45-year-old developed a pulmonary embolism after an international flight in 1999. Filed in March, it too has the potential to set an industry precedent. More and more doctors are also speaking...
DIED. JOHN LEE HOOKER, 83, Mississippi Delta bluesman whose impassioned, resonant voice and urgent electric-guitar riffs influenced modern rock 'n' roll and inspired such musicians as Van Morrison, the Rolling Stones and Eric Clapton; in Los Altos, Calif. The son of a sharecropper and one of 11 children, Hooker ran away from home at 14 to make music in Memphis, Tenn., and didn't stop until 1997--more than 100 albums later. In 1989 Hooker won his first of four Grammy Awards for a version of his 1951 million-selling single, I'm in the Mood, which he rerecorded...
...Saigon, yesterday!, to cut orders from MAC-V to I-Corps and retake the Imperial City of Hue. The President himself came on the line: "Son, you tell Westy he can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs." I took the next Huey to the Delta...
...young performer, perhaps moving to the industrial beat of the factories around him, helped loose the lightning-charged sound that would power American music - blues, rock and even hip-hop - for the remainder of the century. Hooker, like Muddy Waters, B.B. King and Elmore James, took the Mississippi Delta blues and shocked it into modernity, revitalizing the still-youthful music with electric guitars. Hooker's songs were desperate and desolate but enlivened with boogie-woogie energy. His instrumental skills matched his vocal prowess; his guitar playing was spare, sharp and menacing, like a broken beer bottle brandished...
...Hooker's most significant accomplishments was that he took an essentially rural form of music, Delta blues, and made it tough enough for the city, strong enough to support all the rock and roll that would come after it. Hooker once said "the blues is a pick-up. It's not a letdown." Although he sang sad songs like "Hobo Blues" and "My First Wife Left Me" and "It Serves Me Right (To Suffer)", Hooker was searching for catharsis, not pathos; he was looking to chase pain away, not to simply revel in it. "What do music do? It keeps...