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...license on the underlying technology. For if Cady, who has struggled to bring her weight down from 264 lbs. to 195, is any example, the market for such a compound could be huge. "Almost anyone," she wryly observes, "would be sorely tempted to try something that seems to promise nirvana...
Posthumous albums can mean big money. The grunge band Nirvana sold more than 7 million copies of its Unplugged CD, released after the group's lead singer, Kurt Cobain, committed suicide last year. Selena's Spanish-language albums have sold 2.5 million copies since her death. Then there's the inevitable merchandising. The new retrospective album of reggae great Bob Marley, Natural Mystic, contains three full pages in the liner notes plugging "Bob Marley Official Merchandise," such as T shirts and knit caps. And continuing enthusiasm for Hendrix--he sold 3.5 million albums last year--has spawned a virtual cottage...
...multi-disciplinary approach Peterson takes in the classroom apparently extends to the undergraduate theses he oversees, which have included studies on body piercing and the borderline pathology associated with Kurt Cobain, the late lead singer of the rock band Nirvana...
...miracle in the 1970s and '80s also spawned a boom in "new religions" offering spiritual refuge to Japanese alienated by materialism. Asahara's messianic self-image expanded to help fill this void. After a visit to a Himalayan retreat, he boasted of having achieved satori, the Japanese term for nirvana or enlightenment. At this point he also claimed his first success at self-levitation...
...everyone is plugged into the Unplugged sound. Steve Albini, the combative producer of Nirvana's last studio album, In Utero, says record companies have seized on Unplugged as a way of repackaging old, previously recorded material. Already own the original? Now buy the unplugged version. "From an artistic standpoint, it's a total joke," says Albini. "You take bands that are fundamentally electric-rock bands and put acoustic guitars in their hands and make them do a pantomime of a front-porch performance. It's not an authentic reading of that music at all. It's like watching a water...