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...onstage at the 2000 DMC/Technics World DJ Championships in the Millennium Dome in London, and he's playing the crowd like a video game. Craze, 23, won the world championships in 1998 in Paris; he won again in 1999 in New York City. Most DJs just spin and scratch, maybe toss in a few behind-the-back tricks. When Craze spins, it's art--he twists notes in the air the way Jackson Pollock used to drip paint on a canvas. Now, at the London contest, he's adding something else that's fresh: he's playing the needle...
...Eugene, Ore. In February they had the local fire department burn their home to the ground after doctors attributed the family's chronic nosebleeds, flulike symptoms and severe headaches to mold. The O'Haras figured it would cost more to repair the house than to rebuild it from scratch. Others, like Carol Cherry of Hazlet, N.J., can't afford the $5,000-to-$10,000 retainer that lawyers often require to take on a mold case. Stranded in her moldy home, Cherry says, "I can't have guests over. I can't even invite children over to play with...
...over five years to modernize the coop's equipment. So the Americans were stunned when the announcement of the project was greeted by storms of protest from an unlikely coalition of hunters, ecologists and communists. "It was as if they were arriving in an underdeveloped country and starting from scratch," fumes Manuel Diaz, the communist elected mayor of Aniane in March on an anti-Mondavi, anti-globalization ticket...
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...well. Looking at a wall in “raking” sunlight is particularly revealing and often beautiful. After a while, you want to look at some of the brick over and over again—and you want to tear some of down, and start again from scratch...