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...Mickeys may be a minority, but more and more clubs are turning to house or techno instead of live music. And radio and TV stations--all government-run--are playing less timba, the Cuban version of salsa. These are the multiple threats: rock, electronica and, the biggest danger of them all, reggaeton--the Latinized hip-hop that has infiltrated from Puerto Rico, New York City and the Dominican Republic...
...Cuba is cracking up from the inside. I came here to find the band, but not only did it split up (Oscar joined Los Reyes long after leaving El Septeto), but most of its members don't even live in Cuba anymore. Jorge and Piri, who played bass and drums, live near Cancún. They've got a regular gig at a Cuban-themed bar; Jorge married the bleached-blond singer who fronts the band, which now calls itself La Barbie de la Salsa. George works in Mexico City as a producer and guitarist with Margarita Vargas Gaviria, known throughout Mexico...
...abroad are of a milder bent, with gentler aspirations. A cabdriver I met launched into a familiar refrain: most of his family fled to Tampa when Fidel Castro stole their lands. So was he--or his family in Florida--waiting to take the land back, to evict those who live there now? "No," he said, "we're all tired of thinking about fighting." His younger relatives in Florida have forgotten to be angry. More and more Cubans are looking for common ground...
...year as you age from 65 to 95. In the second scenario, a severe recession knocks your portfolio down to $2 million. But because of the crisis, over the next 30 years inflation averages just 2%. In both cases, you withdraw $100,000 a year to live on, and you adjust that number for inflation every year. By the time you're 95, the smaller nest egg has become the larger one - $567,000 vs. $335,000. Maybe that will help talk you in off the ledge...
...wrong that it was allowed to happen.' ABRAHAM BIGGS SR., father of a 19-year-old man who committed suicide during a live video chat on the website Justin.tv, calling for criminal charges to be filed...