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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jones' comprehensive understanding of music makes him him one of the very few musicians to transcend the boundaries between genres and work with artists who span five decades and range in style from big band to pop to jazz to hip hop...

Author: By Jal D. Mehta, | Title: Quincy Jones has built a career by melding the music of four decades. | 6/4/1997 | See Source »

Being told that sex with the network manager is the only way to get a new mouse pad at your workstation? Hop on the Internet and communicate with other victims of sexual harassment worldwide...

Author: By Gabriel B. Eber, | Title: The Internet: Democracy Potentate | 6/4/1997 | See Source »

...excavating one of the largest intact Chinese ground-sluicing operations in the Pacific Northwest. Gold was discovered in Idaho's Boise Basin in 1862. Some 8,000 miners, mostly of European origin, rushed in. By 1870, Chinese miners were staking claims or purchasing or leasing them. In 1881 Hop Lee, of the Hong Lee Tong, signed a lease for a placer claim at the junction of Mores and Granite creeks. It is this site, opened in 1995 (with Simon's participation), to which the Tuckers are returning next month to take up shovels, trowels, whisk brooms and sifting screens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUST LIKE INDIANA JONES | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

...symbolism of the number seven). It's a creative breakthrough for the group--its previous work, which was mostly a cappella, often seemed unfinished and overly jokey. For Seven, instrumentalists have been brought in to help out, as have some accomplished producers, including Michael Franti of the hip-hop soul group Spearhead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: MAMA AFRICA | 5/12/1997 | See Source »

...with bruised passion. Other songs, like African Sunset, draw deftly on the upbeat music of South Africa's townships. But the best song is Daulne's seductive cover of Phoebe Snow's Poetry Man; that song, like much of this fine CD, has the liquid groove of hip-hop and the broken heart of a great torch song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: MAMA AFRICA | 5/12/1997 | See Source »

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