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...indication of light or trashy music, and to shy bricks at 'hateful ragtime' no longer passes for musical culture." In an age when the quest for "diversity" has turned into a form of cultural apartheid, Joplin's achievements and values serve as a reminder of just how potent cultural fusion...
Clothing could be purchased as well. Most of the shirts were so original and beautiful they made the Deadhead want to buy them all, from the simplest peace symbol to the intricate fusion of Sesame Street characters and the Shakedown Street album cover. And only 15 dollars, half of what you would pay for a garment commemortating your presence at one of the Eagles premium rehersal sessions that are passing for concerts this summer...
...snapshot of the culture-character fusion, remember the moment not long ago when a girl on MTV asked Clinton whether he wore boxer shorts or briefs. Can anyone imagine Harry Truman answering the question? If asked, Truman would have said, "None of your damn business!" He would have been right. Bill Clinton might have gracefully said on MTV, "Well, I have been accused of not having a sufficiently dignified approach, so maybe I'd better not answer that...
Records fall as researchers try to harness nuclear fusion...
...knows for sure whether fusion on a large scale will be practical. The U.S. Department of Energy has canceled a bigger machine that was supposed to go beyond what Tokamak can achieve. Instead America will join the Europeans, Japanese and Russians in building the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor; when it goes into operation a decade or so from now, fusion scientists should finally have a device that generates more power than it consumes. Even then it will take decades of engineering before any households could possibly draw electricity from a commercial fusion plant...