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...Olution expresses Eve's strong-woman credo by dramatizing a series of debates that approach The O'Reilly Factor in feistiness. In a skit between songs, a homegirl who ascribes Eve's Grammy win to luck is accused of wearing a rusty nipple ring. On the track Double R What, Eve dismisses a musical competitor with "I'm like a glass; you just a coaster, bitch...
...story line--no record-company supervision equals more artistic freedom--turns out to be true and a mixed blessing. The first single, Long Time Gone, is a floorboard stomper about the passage of time; White Trash Wedding ("I shouldn't be wearing white, and you can't afford no ring") is a two-minute humor hurricane, and the two Patty Griffin-penned songs (Truth No. 2 and Top of the World) show the Chicks can do melancholy credibly. But Home has a little too much melancholy. The Chicks say they were glad not to have record executives pushing them...
...policies designed to further enrich the wealthy at the expense of the rest of us? It's sickening when Bush strikes that "plain folks" pose. He is plain folks neither by birth nor by virtue of demonstrating any sympathy for people in the middle- and lower-income brackets. TRUDY RING Burbank, Calif...
...take the encampment bare-chested, armed only with knives. For Collins, war is more of a creative challenge than a religious obligation. He claims he gave up the jihad in 1996 to stop terrorism because he felt betrayed by its messy logistics and shady characters, but this doesn't ring entirely true. That's not to say Collins is anti-American: it's more likely that after years of combat and the loss of his leg, he was physically and ideologically exhausted...
...WHEN... "Drink at least eight glasses of water a day!" It may have the ring of authority, but when physiologist Dr. Heinz Valtin searched for scientific evidence behind the dictum, he found the glass empty. Hot weather and exercise raise our H2O demands, but for most folks, says Valtin, eight is unnecessary, and excessive water intake can increase exposure to pollutants and in rare cases cause health problems...