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Pygmy vocals meet techno-pop in Deep Forest...
...DEEP FOREST IS THE PRODUCT OF a global village in which the natives are getting funky. On the opening, title track, misty clouds of synthesizer swirl around a percolating hip-hop rhythm as a woman's soothing warble rises over the high-tech groove. Mesmerized, one can almost understand the lyrics. Almost but not quite, because the vocalist is an African Pygmy from Ghana and she is singing in her native tongue. Suddenly, cultural borders blur. What kind of music is this anyway? And would anyone actually dance...
...peace movement in Japan now, because it's impossible to live in a situation like this. Those nuclear reactors--where will they put all the waste?. With all this our children won't have any future, the earth, the air, the marine life on the ocean, the forest all will be destroyed. This is a madness, a sickness...
...throughout the day, providing continuity and calculating each issue's relative importance. Says press secretary Dee Dee Meyers: "He's the place where all things come together. He is the one person, more than ((chief of staff)) Mack McLarty or ((presidential counselor David)) Gergen, who doesn't lose the forest for the trees." Although Clinton does not see Stephanopoulos as a peer -- "he's not an alter ego," cautions another aide -- Meyers maintains that Clinton "trusts him more than anyone else...
...situation is in India, it is far worse in eastern Russia's taiga. The Amur tiger that inhabits this 800-mile-long stretch of evergreen forest nearly disappeared once before -- during the 1930s, when communist big shots would bag eight or 10 of the cats during a single hunt. But the state exercised iron control over the region, and when it decided to protect the tigers, their population recovered from roughly 30 to as many as 400 during the mid-1980s. Unfortunately for the Amur, tiger-bone prices began surging in the early 1990s, just when the fall...