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Oliver and Waldeck win over listeners because they are entertainers first and crusaders second. Dressed in T shirts and sneakers, they mix humor with their anger, and fun with their activism. In one number, Waldeck strolls around the stage under an umbrella. The lyric: "I walk the shores of Lake Champlain/ in the placid acid rain." In another tune, Waldeck dreams of being reincarnated as a "big, wrecking ball" so he can "crack down on condos." But fast-food executives would not find the show especially funny. "Lay down your Whopper and your fries," one song goes. "Save a rain...
...Irish will put up a good fight, even when they're shadowboxing. So Christy Brown had a head start in his battle against petrifying cerebral palsy. There were other crippling odds to buck. He was the tenth of 22 children born to a sod-poor Dublin bricklayer. For the first nine years of Christy's life, his siblings tended him as they would a houseplant: feed it, water it and keep it out of the way. Only his mother dared nurture him with her fierce, uncompromising love, and one day Christy stuck a piece of chalk in his left foot...
...biggest change is psychological. For the first time since the murderous clown-President Idi Amin took over the government in a 1971 coup, Ugandans can walk the streets without fear. "I still have no glass in my windows, and I can't afford sugar for my tea," says Adam Mayanja, 48, who returned to his 32-acre coffee farm north of Kampala three years ago. "But I sleep at night. There is peace and I am free...
Last week U.S. officials confirmed that the launching of a booster rocket July 5 at South Africa's De Hoop testing range was the successful first firing of a new long-distance missile developed with Israeli help. The missile has a 900-mile range, similar to that of Israel's nuclear-capable Shavit...
...dodgy unless lawmakers from the Yellowstone states change their minds. This may happen; polls show that voters favor the idea. Wyoming Republican Senator Alan Simpson, once an antiwolf diehard, talked like a moderate at a recent hearing on Owens' bill and says only, "Let's take care of grizzlies first." He means get the bears off the endangered species list and out from under federal protection, so they can be shot beyond park boundaries...