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...riff sampled from Steely Dan's Show Biz Kids: "You know they don't give a f__ about anybody else." It might not be quite loud enough to be heard in Washington or London, but the noise from the big blue tent at Bethesda Rugby Club is enough to fill this normally serene valley in north Wales. It's the first hometown show in five years for the Super Furry Animals, the most eclectic and technicolor band to emerge from the guitar-drenched mid-'90s. They're here to commemorate the centennial of the longest-ever British strike, when...
LIFEGUARDING Pools from Iowa to New York City struggled to fill spots this year with certified guards...
...soon be filing suit. The resulting two-part TV series caused widespread concern, if not panic, among Beverly Hills high school students, parents and graduates. Six hundred people attended a meeting hosted by Brockovich at the posh Beverly Hills Hotel to recruit potential litigants, who were asked to fill out questionnaires to document their illnesses. Armed with these data, Brockovich charged that emissions of benzene, toluene n-hexane and other substances on the high school campus have caused 300 cases of cancer among those who graduated between 1977 and 1996. Though lacking any valid epidemiological study, she insists that this...
Still, such services are spreading. Utah and California offer do-it-yourself sites that let you fill the forms out online (for $20 at utcourts.gov/how to; free at www.courtinfo. ca.gov/selfhelp) Traffic on the California site rose from 6,800 page views in May 2002 to nearly 17,000 in May 2003. --By Anita Hamilton
...ascendant, Vajpayee more or less retired from public view. But after the fundamentalists reached their high-tide mark last December with the re-election of the ultra-hard-line Narendra Modi as Gujarat's Chief Minister, a chasm opened in the center of Indian politics that only Vajpayee could fill. Last month, when BJP president Venkaiah Naidu suggested that Deputy Prime Minister Advani should lead the party into a general election jointly with Vajpayee, the PM merely had to threaten to resign and Naidu backed down, apologized and offered to relinquish his own post. No one in India wants...