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...recent Groove 'n' Grind compilation is a floor-scuffling, roof-raising anthology of raucous party tunes from the '50s and '60s, featuring sodden classics like Land of 1,000 Dances by Cannibal and the Headhunters. The current Rockin' in the Country: The Best of Wanda Jackson is a roundup of much of the prime material recorded by a vocalist who has real roadhouse spirit and a way with a song that makes her right for the kind of reappraisal this set encourages and amply justifies. Jazz fans should also take note. Rhino has just released a 16-track compilation called...
Even bioengineered plants are not immune to criticism, particularly those * that have been designed to tolerate herbicides. Monsanto, for example, developed strains of soybeans and cotton that grow well when sprayed with the company's Roundup herbicide. Such research may be intended to benefit society, but some environmentalists see it as a cynical play for profits...
...hurricane could not have prevented the riot in New Lodge that took place that summer night. Aug. 8 was the 18th anniversary of internment -- the day the British carried out a mass roundup of suspects -- and it was marked with blazing bonfires in every Catholic neighborhood. For weeks, the kids had been preparing for it, collecting wood, tires, old furniture, anything not nailed down. That afternoon the children had also been gathering milk and beer bottles to make petrol bombs for "after." The police came by at 5 p.m. and smashed the bottles with their rifle butts, but the kids...
...idea seems a natural. Like print magazines, video magazines are published on a regular basis (usually bimonthly or quarterly) and are sold by subscription as well as individually (average cost: about $20 an issue). The genre was launched in 1981 with Videofashion Monthly, a slick roundup of fashion news, and a handful of other video magazines came and went during the '80s. Now the proliferation of VCRs (in nearly 70% of U.S. homes today), and the growing number of people who are buying and not just renting tapes, have inspired a host of entrepreneurs to give the infant field another...
...Louis roundup. Handmade costumes and masks of endangered species are the highlight of the parades on April 21 and 22 that start at the city's famed...