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...Pavarotti, Domingo and Carreras are in or approaching their 60s and will soon need walking frames to reach those high Cs. So what happens when the fat lady finally sings? The world's major record companies have embarked on a mad, expensive scramble to locate and groom the musicians that could succeed the Titanic Trio. If the teams creation was the big music event of the 1990s, the search for the New Three Tenors is the story of the current decade...
...Dale Earnhardt, the race was never over. Back when he was winning everything in sight--11 races one year, nine in another--he would come home some nights mad as hell about something that somebody had done to him on the track. Squeezed him, bumped him, as if he would never do such things himself. And this was after a victory...
...back of one of them. And that blast off the line makes for an unstable and dangerous ride. It is the internal combustion equivalent of yaba: fast, fun, treacherous. And certain to result, eventually, in a fatal spill. But if you're young and Thai and loaded on mad medicine, you feel immortal and it doesn't occur to you that this night of racing will ever, really, have to end. The hundreds of bikers thronged on the street, the revving engines, the other kids cheering as you make your runs, even the cops coming and setting off concussion grenades...
...around is the stench of smoldering trash. The horror of this daily existence is tangible. I don't like being in this place, and I find depressing the idea of living in a world that has places like this in it. And I know a hit of the mad medicine is the easiest way to make this all seem bearable. Taking a hit, I know, is a surefire way of feeling good. Right now. And I want...
...counterfeiters' tale struck a chord with many treasure-mad Filipinos. Newspaper classifieds routinely advertise the services of psychic fortune hunters, and the four governments since Ferdinand Marcos' regime have embarked on searches for Japanese war loot?reportedly worth billions of dollars in gold and jewels?that was allegedly buried somewhere in the archipelago when General Yamashita Tomoyuki's forces retreated before the Allied invasion in 1945. The "primitive" tribes of Mindanao are often the first to capitalize on this gullibility. Says General Ruben Cabignati, regional military commander based in the town of Cagayan de Oro in Mindanao: "I know...