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CROSSKATES Gimmick: Meld in-line skates, skis and dirt bikes New fad? [rated 2 Michael Jordan heads] Look freaky and dangerous, which helps...
...Heartbreak...Success...Glory" with an Aristotelian three-act structure--rise, fall and rehab--and florid narration: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers "came out of the South--driven by jangling guitars and led by a rock-'n'-roll rebel!" E!'s True Hollywood Story is tart and eager to dish dirt. Compare an Intimate Portrait on Natalie Wood, filled with warm family reminiscences, with E!'s dark narrative of despair and drugs that pulled the series' second-highest rating. "Some of our stories end happily, some don't," says E! vice president of original programming Betsy Rott. "We're not afraid...
...vast majority of the population of Chiapas lives in the countryside--many in dirt-floor houses, without electricity and running water. According to a recent statistic, over 60 percent of households still cook with wood--resulting in a high incidence of respiratory illnesses. But I am lucky. I am staying in a house with a stove and a refrigerator and (at times) hot water. (The water company distributes its goods in a Kafkaesque manner; when the tanks are dry--which happened for a span of four days during my stay--the community resorts to using buckets...
...interior. Kid Driver's precious board travelled in a silver cushioned bag. (He later told me the surfboard cost more than the car itself.) Once I managed to close the door, he hit the gas and we pulled onto the pavement, Dukes of Hazzard style, with a plume of dirt behind us. I fastened my seatbeat...
...lone 19-year-old complete with pearls, high heels and a computer wandering deserted dirt roads, goading taxis to speed beyond the traditionally-slow pace of the region to catch cyclists for a quick word before they pedal off and striding purposefully into small, French bars full of old, burly men drunk on the dark red wine of the region to demand the name of the closest hotel...