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...song Hall of Fame, from his forthcoming album Gravitational Forces, Texas singer-songwriter Robert Earl Keen croons, "My songs don't belong on Top 40 radio/I'll keep the old back 40 for my home." The lyrics could easily serve as the slogan of Lost Highway, a new record label that features singer-songwriters like Keen, Lucinda Williams and newcomer Ryan Adams--performers who are too cool for country radio, too country for pop and too headstrong to change their ways. The critically acclaimed Williams, whose new CD, Essence, comes out on Lost Highway this week, calls the label...
...Lost Highway, which was launched by Universal Music earlier this year, wants to reconnect country to its roots. Luke Lewis, the president and founder of the label, says today's country music has siphoned off the "twang and pain" that made the genre meaningful and distinct. And Lewis should know, since he did some of the siphoning--he was president of Mercury Nashville when the appealing but almost twangless Shania Twain rose to superstardom. "I don't feel like there's any irony there," Lewis says. "Shania Twain and [her husband] Mutt Lange are brilliant songwriters. In a twisted...
...HOMEWORK The information highway is an educational godsend. But for growing numbers of college students, the lures of the Net backfire, according to a study in the Journal of Communication. Trouble arises when students become hooked on the "live" Net of instant messaging, chat rooms and gaming. Students who felt Internet use had hurt their schoolwork were logged on to the live Net 10 times as long as were their peers...
...least 174 deaths and more than 700 injuries that prompted Firestone to recall its 15-in. SUV tires last year. Ford faces hundreds of lawsuits that seek damages totaling more than $590 million, and the company is bracing for a report on the tire failures from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Moreover, Representative Billy Tauzin, a Louisiana Republican, plans to hold hearings this summer on the way "this whole mess started and why we didn't hear about it until people started dying...
...vans and driven to Shi To National Park, where they attend a ceremony honoring efforts to rebuild after the September 1999 earthquake. Under a stained blue-red-and-white canopy, the President listens as Nantou's deputy mayor explains how they had to bore through rocks to reopen the highway...