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...Then he was gone - away from Atlantic, off to ABC Paramount, for the life of an interpretive rather than creative artist. Ray Charles sings country? Well, why not? He had a smash with ?I Can?t Stop Loving You? - the kind of success that can propel an artist (or at least allow him to cruise) toward a career as a non-hit-producing musical treasure. For the next four decades, he toured, guested on TV shows, earned honors galore, including a Presidential Medal and a charter membership in the Rock ?n Roll Hall of Fame. It was coasting, sure...
Alter’s early stints with tabloid journalism helped propel him into the highest echelons of political journalism—covering the president and his sex scandals...
...FIGHTERS: Experts battle the powerful forces that propel Americans to eat too much and move too little...
Working in their individual fields--nutrition, psychology, pediatrics--each of these scientists has concluded that it is simply too difficult for Americans to stand up to the many forces that propel them to eat too much and move too little. For decades, they say, the country has seen obesity as a personal problem to be solved by each overweight individual waging a lonely war to trim pounds on the diet du jour. While it's true that we are each responsible for what we put in our own mouth, they note that the personal-responsibility approach has been...
...Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament was disappointing to say the least—and yet, as the match wore on and the Harvard men’s tennis team watched co-captains David Lingman and Cliff Nguyen embattled in almost simultaneous second-set tiebreaks, both struggling to propel the Crimson past a Fighting Illini squad which had not lost in more than two years, the scenario was strangely appropriate...