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...Nino could pump so much heat into the ocean that average sea-surface temperatures might rise 3.5[degrees]C, or 7[degrees]F--and if this happens, the effects would be felt far into the new year. Among the disasters that would be likely to result are landslides, flash floods, droughts and crop failures. Ecuadorian cocoa producers estimate that the current El Nino could lower crop yields as much...
...historian Barbara Dafoe Whitehead published an essay in the Atlantic Monthly titled "Dan Quayle Was Right." Citing studies that tracked the development of children raised by single parents, she identified broken families as Public Enemy No. 1, responsible for a generation of sad and angry, underachieving youngsters. In a flash, Whitehead's point of view won converts no less influential--and liberal--than Donna Shalala and Hillary Clinton, who in her book It Takes a Village wrote of feeling "ambivalent about no-fault divorce when children are involved...
Sadly, the pulverizing novelty of sexual danger was quickly domesticated, as the star jumped into mainstream show business. Within a year of his flash flame, he had segued from being Elvis to doing Elvis, playing him on TV and in movies. By the '60s, he was his own parody, stunt double, postage stamp--the first Elvis impersonator. In the new era of the singer-songwriter, hack tunesmiths were still handing him drab variations on Don't Be Cruel. The Beatles left him for dead; and his darling, deviant version of Blowin' in the Wind (from a Graceland basement tape) shows...
...June, and will work to reattach cables disconnected after the June crash. U.S. astronaut Michael Foale will not participate in either operation, but instead has been instructed to camp inside the Soyuz escape capsule until a space shuttle mission picks him up in September. Having survived emergencies ranging from flash fires and a collision to being set adrift in space with last week's power failure, the two frazzled Russian crew members are looking forward to landing on Earth by August...
Howlett, the founder and creative core of the band, and a native of Chelmsford, England, says he received his earliest inspiration from American hip-hop acts like Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. He subsequently submerged himself in Britain's burgeoning hip-hop-influenced, Ecstasy-popping rave culture. In 1989 he formed a band with Flint, Keith Palmer (Maxim) and Leeroy Thornhill, who became the group's featured dancer. Their early CDs featured soft techno-dance tunes. They were hits in England, but they sold poorly in the U.S., and the Prodigy's first record label, Elektra, let the band...