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...singer's divided career hasn't hurt his music. Reveal is a smooth combination of lush, mysterious melodies and high-tech production. It's like a trip through a rain forest on a hovercraft. On Up, the band overemphasized the electronica; on Reveal, the judicious techno touches contribute to a sense of drama and experimentation. Stipe's lyrics remain characteristically erudite and elusive. On Imitation of Life he croons, "Charades, pop skill/water hyacinth, named by a poet." On Chorus and the Ring, he sings, "It's the poison that in measures brings illuminating vision/It's the knowing with a wink...
SCORCHED EARTH He made himself an easy target for environmentalists by going soft on CO2 and arsenic, but President Bush has become a savvier woodsman. Last week the President faked left and installed Clinton-era regulations preventing road building and logging on about 60 million acres of national forest. The catch: he will give local authorities the power to bend these rules on a case-by-case basis, effectively negating the rules before putting them in place. Most of the land in question is in the West, including Alaska's Tongass, which has the most pending permits for logging...
...BigFoot Will Just Have To Wait For His E-mail Can't we just talk? It was the technology that was going to let us watch movies in the Amazonian rain forest and trade pork-belly futures while hanging from Mount Rushmore. Third-generation mobile telecommunications, or 3G, was going to change life as we know it, starting this month in Japan. Well, it looks like we're safe, for a while at least, from video conferences with the boss while on the privy. NTT DoCoMo, the undisputed hare in the race to bring 3G to market, announced last week...
...multiple-choice time. Eddie Murphy is reprising his role as the veterinarian who can speak to animals, only this time around, he's living in the forest, and his animal friends are organizing their first labor strike. If the sequel is anything like the original, we can expect...
...Rather than enforce Clinton's last-minute rules, Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman declared the administration will allow local officials to determine the fate of forest land on a case-by-case basis. The changes will go into effect immediately. "Through this action we affirm the department's commitment to the important challenge of protecting roadless values," Veneman told reporters Friday afternoon...