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...justifying his actions, Abacha cited Nigeria's "grave economic predicament," brought about, he said, by an "inept and corrupt leadership." Oil normally accounts for 90% of Nigeria's export earnings, but the world petroleum glut sent those revenues falling from a peak of $26 billion a year to $10 billion. Corruption in Nigeria is rampant...
...camera, the home shutterbug market is all but saturated. Cameras, moreover, face increased competition from home computers, video recorders and other entrants in the race for the so-called leisure dollar. As a result, many experts doubt that U.S. camera sales will ever again reach 1981's peak of nearly 46 million units...
...state-owned structure's basic secret: three swimming-pool-size, 250,000-gal. concrete water tanks resting in the basement. Like giant thermos bottles, these insulated containers can store heat, which can be tapped at will. In daytime, when the building's population is at its peak and office machinery is working full blast, the air in the central core of the building rapidly warms up. (The human body in a 72°F room gives off 250 B.T.U.s per hour, about equal to the heat from a 75-watt light bulb.) This hot air is propelled through...
...music, where one Italian baritone has, however unwittingly, put Tosi's recommendations into practice throughout his four-decade career: Frank Sinatra. A 16-album, $350 set of vintage recordings, recently released on the audiophile label Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab, documents Sinatra's vocal art at its peak...
...That peak came between 1953 and 1962, when Sinatra was recording for Capitol Records. Teamed with arrangers such as Billy May, Gordon Jenkins and, especially, Nelson Riddle, Sinatra finally put to rest the "Swoonatra" image of his youth to become a singer of astonishing breadth, consummate technique and unrivaled intensity...