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...wrenching, dangerous work. When Emergency took over the main hospital in Kigali, the Rwandan capital, in 1994, Strada's team worked without running water, electricity or even a roof. "It helped when we had a full moon," recalls Strada. The conditions will only get worse in Afghanistan, where he would rather not be. "Emergency's ultimate goal," he says, "is to be completely useless." Sadly, that's not likely anytime soon...
...novelist, a phone call from OPRAH WINFREY is like a house call from the prize patrol: the big check has arrived. The author appears on Oprah's show, and sales go through the roof. But not long after JONATHAN FRANZEN's literary best seller The Corrections got the nod, the writer got cold feet: "She's picked some good books, but she's picked enough schmaltzy, one-dimensional ones that I cringe," he said. Oprah's justice was swift. She did not withdraw the seal of approval, but she did the next worst thing: "Jonathan Franzen will...
...country's greatest mall, without a doubt, is the Mall of America in Minneapolis, Minn. It's a capitalistic biosphere, a place where, under one roof, a store called Candy Candy! does battle with not only Candyland and Candy Cravings but also Candy Is Dandy. Nearly 40% of the shoppers who visit its 4.2 million sq. ft. are tourists willing to travel hundreds of miles to pay tribute to a giant replica of the shopping centers they have in their hometowns. The Mall of America is the Disney World of shopping...
Nowhere was their universal appeal more apparent than under the roof of Avalon last week. After a ridiculously pompous opening fanfare, the duo got straight to business with a spine-tingling mix of their wildest, most floor-shaking anthems. The songs were intercut by intense live jams that consisted almost entirely of tweaked sirens and ultra-distorted basslines, the occasional cheeky sample (Eminem elicited a small cheer), and divine, slamming beats. Not stopping at mere sound, however, the show boasted a rotating cast of exotically clad vocalists and dancers whose exhortations to the crowd were at once embracing and confrontational...
...scrambled into the car. Stones hammered on the car, banging the roof, the doors, and finally one softball-sized rock crashed through Jerome's window, showering him and his cameras with splinters of glass. Other than that, we were all okay...