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Obviously, the music of these lesser-known alternative groups does not really interest me all that much. Instead, it is their zany band names that I find especially intriguing. For, in an effort to outdo others in the industry, fledgling music groups continue to come up with stranger and stranger names, providing ample diversion to pass those lazy nights of summer...
...this is not Majorca, the all-too-famous Mediterranean resort. It is Minorca, the lesser-known jewel of the Balearic Islands. Its attractions tend to be subtler but are often deeper. Over 4,000 years of its inhabited history, Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Romans, Arabs, French and British have come and left their various imprints on Minorcan life, enriching its language and architecture. More than a beach vacation, Minorca is a 270-sq.-mi. museum, filled with ancient treasures. As many as 1,000 archaeological sites dot the countryside. Most of the monuments--including Bronze Age structures and early Christian basilicas...
Small wonder, then, that the industry zoomed from about 10 companies in 1994 to some 50 participants last year. Giants such as GE Capital, Norwest Financial and Ford's Associates First Capital came barreling in alongside lesser-known newcomers. But the overcrowded field swiftly became unforgiving. For example, the market value of Mercury Finance, a sub-prime auto lender in Lake Forest, Ill., collapsed from $2.2 billion to $130 million last year after the company disclosed that it had overstated profits...
Every Olympics, of course, finds many of its highlights in the corners, where no one thinks to look for them. The upper-case Games were about Wayne Gretzky's checking into the Olympic Village like an Everyman; the lower-case ones were about lesser-known athletes' rubbing shoulders with the Great One. The marquee performer in the men's downhill, when finally it was completed, Hermann Maier, stormed out of the starting gate and, at the first major jump, turned into a cartwheeling, somersaulting blur of red and orange as he crashed through two retaining fences and ended...
...groove. Mysterious sounds radiate in the background--ultimately conspiring with the vocals to create a stunningly arcane song. While the Scream 2 soundtrack may sell because it includes bands like the Foo Fighters and Dave Matthews Band, the real appeal comes from offerings like this one and those from lesser-known groups...