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...reason to be concerned about long-term health effects, those in attendance said that they worried about the possibility of a recurrence. "It sounds like you're planning on continuing this kind of operation. I think you should change what you're doing here," said Alex Selvig, who unsuccessfully ran for the Allston-Brighton council seat in the preliminary election last fall. "This styrene release can't happen again." Though Harvard representatives and Turner Construction notified residents in the immediate area about the release of styrene when the incident occurred, some residents said they were upset that the broader community...

Author: By Laura A. Moore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Toxic Release Prompts Allston Residents To Question Risks of Harvard Construction | 8/13/2008 | See Source »

...trying to herd cats." King well knows the perils (and potential embarrassments) of trying to attract analog readers through digital means. Riding the Bullet was a success, but an online serialization of The Plant - an e-book also released in 2000 - ceased after King, in a rare moment, publicly ran out of creative juice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stephen King, Ready for Download | 8/12/2008 | See Source »

...from South Ossetia continue to arrive in the area outside the capital, looking for somewhere to live. The past few hours may have been the worst. Late Tuesday morning, four attack helicopters swept in over the brow of the hill and fired incendiary bombs into the wheat field. Villagers ran for cover. It was the second attack in less than 12 hours. In the early hours of this morning, a group of Russian jets bombed a cement factory and railway line in a neighboring village. In nearby Gori, the hospital was attacked; a Dutch journalist was killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Scene: Georgia's Ravaged Capital | 8/12/2008 | See Source »

...stare that managed to intimidate and seduce, made the songwriter a natural for performing. Oddly, his first LP was the jazz-inflected, discursive Presenting Isaac Hayes. Not until Hot Buttered Soul in 1969 did he connect with the public, and even this album contained several cuts that ran 8 to 10 mins. He'd take a Burt Bacharach song and spin it into soul-improv infinity, or begin his version of Jimmy Webb's By the Time I Get to Phoenix with an 8-min. monologue. Whether singing or speaking, the man could hold an audience. Maybe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Isaac Hayes: From Shaft to Chef | 8/11/2008 | See Source »

...police and media both chased after, with British tabloids competing to find McKinney, making do in the meantime with pictures and revelations about her former career as a nude model for sex magazines. When reporters ran McKinney and May to ground in Atlanta, Georgia a month later, the couple revealed how they'd used a succession of disguises - first as nuns, then in a sari and Sinbad the Sailor outfit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cloner Dogged by Sex Scandal | 8/11/2008 | See Source »

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