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...which remain the fastest-growing component of America's $1.3 trillion health-care bill. The action is on two fronts. The FTC, for its part, is going after brand-name drug companies that seek to block cheaper, copycat generic drugs from the marketplace. At the same time, a bipartisan duo of congressional lawmakers is pushing legislation designed to restrict those anticompetitive tactics and speed up government approval of generic medicines...
...seed for Accelerated was planted in 1992 when Sved met Johnathan Williams. Both were teachers, and Williams was a leader of their local union who teamed with Sved in a failed attempt to initiate reforms at another South Central school. But when their efforts were stymied by bureaucrats, the duo submitted to the Los Angeles Unified School District an application to start their own charter school under a new state law permitting a limited number of public schools to operate free of many district and state regulations. Skeptical administrators gave Sved and Williams just six months to round...
Colombia, birthplace of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and many of the fables about El Dorado, has long been a land where people search for the extraordinary. So two years ago, singer-guitarist Andrea Echeverri and bassist-producer Hector Buitrago of the Colombian rock duo Aterciopelados (ah-tair-see-oh-peh-lah-dose) trekked to Colombia's Putumayo region, befriended a local shaman and joined in what Buitrago calls a healing ritual. "They make this drink, and everyone has it," says Echeverri. "You get terribly sick and get in touch with the divine part of yourself and see beautiful things...
Some of that same sorcery--minus the stomach-upsetting side effects--is present in the duo's terrific new CD Gozo Poderoso (BMG U.S. Latin). Aterciopelados (the name means the Velvety Ones and was borrowed from the writings of Simone de Beauvoir) formed in Bogota around 1990. Echeverri's parents were dentists; Buitrago's family ran a store in a market. The two dated, but soon their bond became a purely musical one. "That relationship is in the past," says Echeverri. "But we respect each other and we love each other...
...Stupid, ridiculous giddy fun defined the original, and that's what can be expected for the sequel, Rush Hour 2. Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan team up again as the odd-couple, culture-clashing detective duo to do battle against some form of evil, but this time Tucker's the fish out of water as the action shifts from L.A. to Hong Kong. Plot details are sketchy, but immaterial as the pair attempts to uncover a conspiracy involving the Triad organized crime syndicate. Trailers show Chan's self-choreographed, playfully frenetic fight scenes will provide eye candy, aided...