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...through their own private adult website, but complete absurdity ensues when the great minds are reincarnated in the bodies of the city's residents. At one point the spirit of Nicola Tesla "screws" itself into the skull of a wino "like a genie into a bottle." The spirits of Karl Marx, Ovid, Aristotle and Albert Einstein, among many many others, also descend on the city. Almost laughable, these passages only serve to add to a growing sense of dissatisfaction with where, if anywhere, the plot is heading...
...KARL TARO GREENFELD, one of our New York-based business writers, this week reports on the threat that computer-savvy college students are posing to the record industry. "Many people, but primarily students, have found a way to download free songs off the Internet, even though it's illegal," says Greenfeld. "The industry has not yet found an effective way to prevent it." Unless it does soon, a generation of kids will get out of the habit of buying...
...Karl and Claire Ritzler are typical vanguard baby boomers: they've worked for nearly three decades; two kids are out of the house, and the third is nearing college graduation. And, at age 50, statistically speaking, the Ritzlers are only a little more than halfway through life. That's right: the Society of Actuaries estimates that baby boomers will be the first generation of which both sexes are expected to live well into their 80s, and many will live to see a 100th birthday...
...Karl Ritzler, however, has some retirement advice worth repeating: "Neither of my parents lived to be 60. I want to end the grind of the workday and do more of the things I enjoy...I may even work at the local Wal-Mart," he says with a laugh before adding, "This is a learning experience; nothing is set in stone." Until you are--but that's an entirely different kind of retirement...
...radio or the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. These are two street performers named David and Roselyn, playing songs for spare change in the French Quarter of New Orleans. This is Sylvester ("Sunshine") Lee teaching a class in African drumming in East St. Louis, Ill. This is polka accordionist Karl Hartwich and Cajun bandleader D.L. Menard and bluesmen Big Jack Johnson and Little Milton...