Word: dust
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BODY'--Michael M. Rosen; SENATE DUST--Melissa Rose Langsam; LOST AND FOUND--Adam S. Hickey
However, moving from mellow acoustic ramblings into ingenious electronic sound collage, Beck demanded everyone's undivided attention with Odelay. Collaborating with the Dust Brothers-whose everything-but-the-kitchen-sink production methods had already revolutionized the Beastie Boys album Paul's Boutique--Beck crafted an album that sounded like it came from somewhere between Memphis, Manhattan and Mars. The country rambler was still here, but now he was hobnobbing with bubbling psychedelic guitars, booming hip-hop tracks and distorted space-age bleeps. Splashed through with enough classic soul samples to put Stax Records back in business, Odelay was a manifesto...
...Weil. The Financial Times reported Tuesday that Soros will close down his Quantum Emerging Market Growth fund and merge two other hedge funds in a move designed to change the tone of his Quantum group. "This is a sign that Soros plans to play it safe until the dust settles in the world economy," says TIME senior business reporter Bernard Baumohl. "He is consolidating his fund's investments under the control of Stanley Druckenmiller, who is a more cautious money manager." And Soros would have more cause than most to show caution -- his fund suffered a $2 billion...
...fully realize how much water matters in Vegas until you see the works of Kublai Wynn, the Bellagio especially. Never was a city built and embellished in such opposition to its own environment. The Mormons tried settling this parched valley, nothing but dust, rocks and Gila monsters, in the 1850s; they failed. In 1905 it was set up as a dry-gulch railroad town handling transshipments of fruits and vegetables from California to the Midwest. Labor strikes all but destroyed the railroad, and with it Las Vegas, in the 1920s. And then, in the '30s, three things made the place...
...bird! It's a plane! No, it's Suzuki's Hayabusa (Japanese for falcon), said to be the fastest "street-legal" sport bike ever made. Its 1,300-cc engine and aerodynamic design enable the bike to reach 186 m.p.h., leaving the current champ, the Honda Blackbird, in the dust. What good is having a vehicle that can go three times the speed limit? Ask any guy with a Ferrari...