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...Within a year, Bing was on his own and a star, perhaps the first star in a new galaxy. He broke the tradition of stentorian tenors, whose big voices and melodramatic high notes were needed to fill the concert halls and vaudeville houses. Crosby recognized the intimacy of the plug-in media: radio, records and the new talking pictures. His voice - music critic Henry Pleasants described it as "microgenic" - was made for the studio mike. With a mellow baritone that got richer as it aged, he gave an FM sonority to AM radio. It was a modern, all- American sound...
...Kelly is rooting for a clean-energy renaissance. The more cleaner energy there is on the market - and the cleaner it is - the better Kelly will be able to peddle it to consumers who are willing to pay a small premium to have a clearer conscience every time they plug in and turn...
...dictator here!" he says. "That they can say it [freely] refutes it. That was not the case under a real dictatorship like the Duvaliers." He has offered to hold the Senate elections again and has brought the opposition into his Cabinet. He pledges to privatize such industries as electricity, plug the poor into capitalism by slicing red tape and breathe 4% growth into the economy...
...tasks strike as much fear in my heart as installing new hardware on my computer. So I procrastinate. I get a sudden urge to tidy up my office. I wonder if maybe I'm coming down with the flu and should leave work early. All this because when I plug in a new peripheral, something all too often goes horribly wrong. My computer sputters, chokes and begins firing off error messages. Then it becomes eerily silent, unresponsive to anything but the emergency-restart button. After what feels like days on the phone with tech support, I swear never to mess...
...well in Washington even before Bush arrived. In 1997 the Senate, which must ratify treaties, voted 95 to 0 that any global-warming pact that came before it must treat developed and developing countries equally. Such a repudiation is one more argument the Administration is using to pull the plug on Kyoto - though the Senate was probably driven by more than mere conscience. One of the 1997 resolution's sponsors was Democratic Senator Robert Byrd, from the coal-producing state of West Virginia. Other interests - notably the oil and coal industries, both heavy contributors to Bush's election campaign - also...