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Rappers expressing their passion for justice and black empowerment are hardly uncommon. Rhyming over experimental jazz, funk, blues and reggae samples is no longer unorthodox. But the Atlanta-based group Arrested Development does both in a way that strikes a novel note. For one thing, consider its makeup. There are four men and two women (itself unusual, since rap groups nearly always divide strictly along gender lines): a lead rapper- singer named Speech, a deejay, another singer, a traditional African dancer and -- get this -- a 60-year-old spiritual adviser, who doesn't appear onstage with the group but draws...
...MAKEUP: Charlotte J. Quiggle (Chief...
...with the carrier Independence already in the Persian Gulf, the Pentagon moved the Saratoga to the eastern Mediterranean and dispatched Patriot launchers and missiles to Kuwait. But Baghdad's two-steps- forward-one-step-back confrontation with Washington allowed Saddam for the first time have a say in the makeup of a U.N. inspection team. It also let him claim a triumph over the U.S. By the time the U.N. team entered the building on Tuesday -- as three inspectors, two of them American, waited outside -- the Iraqis had had five days to remove any incriminating materials...
Heredity has a lot to do with the muscles' makeup, but training can play a part as well. "You can't convert slow-twitch into fast-twitch fibers," says Fleck, but you can speed them up a bit. Middle-distance runners who want to improve their final kick can go through drills of bounding, jumping and sprinting to condition their muscle fibers to contract more quickly...
...Makeup: Eugene F. Coyle (Chief); Alison E. Ruffley, Leonard Schulman...