Word: novas
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...sounds initially like rhythm and blues, mostly New Orleans with a pinch of primitive Chicago. Sometimes the saxophones break honkingly loose, sometimes they lay in one foghorn-like riff through an entire song. But the real musical underlay is Cajun, a musical cross-fertilization of Acadian immigrants driven from Nova Scotia by the British and Africans brought to rural Louisiana by slavery. Which explains both Zydeco's compelling rhythmic patterns and the fact that several of Chenier's numbers are sung in Cajun French...
...diplomatic corps until the country's puritanical military bosses fired him for his "vagabond" ways, which included nine marriages. In his later years he was a fixture at Rio's all-night cafés and clubs, where he sang for his supper the bossa nova and samba tunes he helped to make world-famous...
...mortgage debt load of more than $1 trillion. Yet even credit crunches create opportunities, and some canny consumers have found profits in the vortex of soaring interest rates. A Detroit magazine editor, for example, now sends his savings across the border to invest in the Canadian Bank of Nova Scotia, where six-month certificates yield 17.5% and up, or 2% more than is available Stateside. Two daughters of an affluent Birmingham, Mich., physician used $14,000 in low-interest Government student loans (see box) to invest in real estate and bank certificates. One of the most popular gambits...
...written. History has been scribbling away ever since. So have generations of traveling writers. It became a sort of religious obligation, like the Muslim hadj, for European journalists, geniuses and hacks to make their way to the New World and there test their sensibilities upon the peppy and savage Nova Zembla that interrupted Columbus on his way to the Orient...
Voyaging through the Caribbean (and off Nova Scotia, where Westward cruises in summer) sounds glamorous indeed, but aboard ship the glamour blurs. Students average only four hours of sleep a night and whirl through a torrent of classes, experiments and deck duties...