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...hopper. "They got an old car seat and put that in the drum, and then they went looking for an astronaut,'' Arneth recalls. A runty stockman was chosen and inserted, too drunk to protest, into the cramped cockpit. In case he got thirsty on the moon, the men hung a water bag beside the car seat. Then they put some gelignite under the rocket, ran a trail of petrol to it, counted down from 10 and dropped a lit match onto the "fuse...
Tiaro Shire: Discover the magic, says a billboard. The brownish fields at Gunalda, 200 km north of Brisbane, don't look especially magical. But then you walk into a shop called Wind Fairies, and you start to wonder. Inside a room hung with blue velvet and decked with gold stars and Christmas-tree lights, Rhonda Gadenne puts a small glass ball in your hand, sprinkles you with glitter and says: "Close your eyes and make your fairy wish. May your magic come true...
...said Dr. Naya Izzaldine, 40, a pathologist from West Beirut and a Sunni Muslim. On Monday, the airwaves are already filled with songs about Qana and someone with access to a huge color printer produced a super-sized image depicting Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice with bloody fangs, and hung it from a highway overpass in the center of town. Offices are shut. Shops are closed. Beirut mourns...
...Hammer is forced to agree. "There in the muck and slime of the jungle, there in the stink that hung over the beaches rising from the bodies of the dead, there in the half-light of too many dusks and dawns laced together with the crisscrossed patterns of bullets, I had gotten a taste of death and found it palatable to the extent that I could never again eat the fruits of a normal civilization.... Maybe it did happen to me over there.... Maybe I was twisted and rotten inside. Maybe I would be washed down the sewer with...
...really mattered in popular music. Really, her great gift is that she has a terrific set of ears. She listens to what's going on at the avant-garde edge and has an uncanny ability to recognize bits that, in a different context, could have mainstream appeal. Think about "Hung Up"; it's a 5:37 marathon of a song, the kind of thing that shouldn't work outside of a dance club. But keeping in mind that pop listeners are used to time-released thrills every 30 seconds or so - you know, hooks - she's thrown in about...