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...Music Factory debut album, Gonna Make You Sweat, has hit No. 2 on the Billboard pop-album chart. Its first single, the title track, reached No. 1; its second, Here We Go, is also heading for a high perch. "They tried to kill disco, and it's back," adds the other C, Robert Clivilles, 26. "They just call it dance music now. It's a big deal. It's the people's choice...
...near San Francisco, is California's inexorable urge to build. Winiarski rightly calls the Napa Valley "a national treasure." Yet some county officials, mindful only of tax revenue and tourist dollars, want a four-lane highway to ease heavy weekend traffic and are openly sympathetic to developers who would perch condos on fragile hills overlooking the vineyards. On Nov. 6 voters approved Proposition J, which prohibits any change until the year 2020 in the county's general plan for preserving vineyards. Pessimists think it only a matter of time before the plan comes under renewed threat. "Once we have...
...years, then went belly up, and now a toxic-waste cleanup putters along in a clutter of rusted metal. Ellsworth Lake is still where it was when my father and I would shove off at first light in a borrowed rowboat, seats slicked by dew, to fish for perch and crappies with bamboo poles and worms. Now a friendly fellow who is launching a $15,000 bass boat, complete with electronic fish-finder, says the water is a funny color near the dead steel factory. But Ellsworth's houses and churches are painted, and yards are mowed. The surrounding dairy...
...about oil and about order. Neither cause alone would lead President Bush to spend American wealth and risk American blood on this huge scale. But the debate has focused too much on what we need to achieve to re-establish order: Saddam Hussein dead, or off his perch, or out of Kuwait, or merely cowed from further territorial ambition? We need a clear war aim with respect to oil as well. And the only such aim that would begin to justify the cost and the danger is one directed at our beneficiaries, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, as well...
...this regard, the United States reminds me of the executive that battled his way to the top of the corporate ladder. One day he looked from his lofty perch, a place of privilege, power, influence and wealth to the road he left behind. Easy to see but some-times difficult to accept, he saw his broken marriage, a shattered family whose children had no leadership and direction, and alie-nated friends. He began to realize that even his own health was suffering--although from all appearances and according to his business contacts he was the model of success. Inside...