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...event in upstate New York. Some 180,000 scored the $135 tickets. Melissa Etheridge, Aerosmith, the Spin Doctors, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bob Dylan, Peter Gabriel and veteran Woodstocker Joe Cocker will perform over the weekend. One aspect of the original Woodstock threatens to repeat itself -- weather forecasters predict on-again off-again thunderstorms that would once again turn the fields of the 850-acre farm into...
...pessimistic 10th International AIDS Conference wrapped up in Yokohama, Japan, with the familiar warning that prevention is the only weapon to fight the spread of the worldwide epidemic. To that end, public health officials predict 20 billion condoms will be needed in the next decade. Currently in the U.S. 562 million condoms are sold annually. Some 17 million people are believed to be infected with the virus that causes AIDS...
...also possible that the show isn't quite over. Theorists at NASA'S Jet Propulsion Laboratory argue, on the basis of a computer model of S-L 9, that debris -- including boulders several hundred feet across -- has lagged behind the original 21 major fragments. These stragglers, they predict, will keep hitting Jupiter through September. Unlike the participants in last week's show, however, some of the later pieces may smash into the near side of the planet, giving astronomers a chance to watch some strikes directly. Is the theory plausible? Says Weaver: "These are the same guys who said...
Russia's history as part of the Soviet Union was marked by aggressive maintenance of the status quo, Grigoriev said. If Russians didn't have much to expect from the future, they were at least able to predict...
...Clinton's. Expect a nail-biter tomorrow when the Senate Finance Committee votes on Moynihan's strategy. He'll push voluntary measures to have employers pay for medical insurance, but effectively make them pay ONLY after 5 years if too few Americans are covered. Key Republicans on the committee predict they'll successfully defeat the thing Wednesday, prompting TIME Washington correspondent Dick Thompson to speculate that Moynihan (with White House coaxing) has set up the GOP members to be the spoilers who ruin health-care reform's chances...