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...happens, in Southern California, in a quiet, relatively uninternational town, but I could as easily be in Vancouver or Sydney or London or Hong Kong. All the world's a rainbow coalition, more and more; the whole planet, you might say, is going global. When I fly to Toronto, or Paris, or Singapore, I disembark in a world as hyphenated as the one I left. More and more of the globe looks like America, but an America that is itself looking more and more like the rest of the globe. Los Angeles famously teaches 82 different languages in its schools...
...ways that were hardly conceivable even a generation ago, the new world order is a version of the New World writ large: a wide-open frontier of polyglot terms and postnational trends. A common multiculturalism links us all -- call it Planet Hollywood, Planet Reebok or the United Colors of Benetton. Taxi and hotel and disco are universal terms now, but so too are karaoke and yoga and pizza. For the gourmet alone, there is tiramisu at the Burger King in Kyoto, echt angel-hair pasta in Saigon and enchiladas on every menu in Nepal...
...council will consider concerts of a larger scale next week, when campus life committee member John A. Mann '92-94 submits a motion to fund a $14,000 Digable Planet concert to the full council. Mann said he expected the council would recoup about $10,000 by selling $10 tickets to the event...
That testimonial is echoed by many young fans in 241 million households planet-wide who tune in for the music and stay to watch "Free Your Mind" news features, interspersed between MTV'S main fodder of music videos and celebrity interviews. Often derided as a vapid, immature channel for rap-and- rock vidkids, MTV tackles serious problems in segments that range from three minutes to theme weekends. Promising viewers "free your mind and the rest will follow," the five international affiliates -- MTV Brasil, Asia, Japan, Europe and Latino -- cover issues like safe sex and the environment, once deemed too sensitive...
Ozone is both a boon and a bane. High in the atmosphere, it protects the Earth from harmful ultraviolet rays, but down near the planet's surface, it is a notorious pollutant which damages the respiratory tract and ruins trees and crops...