Word: rocks
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...concerned, there has never been a better time to be Indian. After decades of being the only significant English-speaking market in the world to be ignored by nearly everybody else, India is suddenly the flavor of the new century. Vogue will launch an Indian edition next year. Every rock act of note plays Bangalore: the Rolling Stones were here three years ago and U2 will perform in the autumn. Chanel spent several hundred thousand dollars on a single evening's festivities to announce its entry into India, and Christian Dior, Giorgio Armani, Gucci and the others are on their...
...intensity of the flicker told the scientists how small the planet was- too small to be a gaseous blob like Neptune- and therefore probably made of rock and ice; the timing told them it?s about three times further from its star than we are from the sun. Its surface temperature is probably below ?360 degrees F, much too frigid to sustain life...
...proposed projects will ever be built. Brian Gordon, a principal at Applied Analysis, a real estate research firm, says the developers with experience building luxury high-rises, whose properties are located on or near the Strip and carry a strong and recognizable brand name- such as Donald Trump, Hard Rock and MGM Grand- are the ones playing winning hands in Vegas...
...Some of Chirac's peers may be smirking at his plight, but perhaps they should take note. For the French President's rock-bottom ratings are an extreme example of a corrosive trend in public opinion that poses just as much of a threat to U.S. President George W. Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and leaders of dozens of other countries, as well as to the heads of global institutions and corporations from IBM to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). As political and business leaders ready themselves for their trek to the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum...
...R.E.M. might say, it’s the end of the world as we know it, and we feel fine. No, dear reader, the following is neither a forecast of the apocalypse nor an elegy for the state of rock music today. But have you ever noticed how we often go through life as if we are living at the end of the world, as if the world—whether or not we like it—is going to keep looking like this forever? As one of the first generations to grow up largely beyond the shadow...