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...scheduled to arrive: schoolchildren buzzed with excitement as they waited on a hill; women stood with vegetables on their head, squinting into the distance; and men stood in pairs quietly talking under the sweltering sun. Suddenly, a convoy of sport utility vehicles whirred up a cloud of orange dust as it pulled into the camp - the rebel group had arrived to meet its victims. The crowd erupted: high-pitched singing, dancing and loudly banging drums accompanied the rebels' parade through the winding, dirty camp. Amid squawking chickens and small, amazed children, ex-LRA fighters waved to the crowd and received...
...extinction of the dinosaurs has long been considered a crime committed by a lone gunman: an incoming asteroid that struck the earth 65 million years ago, filling the air with sun-blocking dust. Now, however, controversy is being stirred anew as evidence suggests that the asteroid might have had a partner in crime: volcanoes, massive ones, blasting clouds of toxic gas from the bowels of the earth and poisoning much of the planet's life...
Until now, though, only a handful of Middleton's plays have been in print at any one time; English teachers could slip one into a course on Shakespeare's contemporaries, and theaters could dust a few of them off every couple of years, but nothing more. Taylor was convinced that the only way to get Middleton his groove back was to collect everything he ever wrote in one book, giving people the choice they never had before. He was so convinced that, along with co-editor John Lavagnino and 73 other contributors - who helped edit the texts and wrote critical...
Every so often, though, one is nudged out of orbit by a chance encounter with some other object; it plunges in toward the sun, heats up and releases gases and dust that form a halo and stream away in a long, magnificent tail...
...would need that perspective when she arrived at Hearst. Black had already proved herself; now she would have to prove that there was still life left in the old magazine industry. "It's time to blow the dust off the curtains at Hearst!" she announced at a management conference. And she did. Black launched O: The Oprah Magazine in 2000, which has generated $1.3 billion in ad revenue since then and all but invented a new category, the celebrity-driven lifestyle and self-help magazine...