Word: shipped
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...object described in Revelation 8: 10 as a great star named Wormwood that "fell from heaven, blazing like a torch." Wormwood, according to the Bible, destroys a third of almost everything: people, land, rivers and seas. Others claim that the comet is some kind of alien mother ship "under intelligent control...
...that as it may, Rice, who lives a few blocks from the restaurant, wasn't the only one who went apoplectic when the Straya California Creole Grand Cafe was unveiled, looking like an accident between a cruise ship and a strip mall. "It gives me high blood pressure," says Louise Martin, a member of a neighborhood group. But she seems to be expressing a minority opinion, especially now that Copeland has been giving discounts to customers bearing Rice's ads. In a Times-Picayune poll, readers took his side 3 to 1. "And we're booked," says Copeland...
...rewiring now under way of America's longest-running monopoly--the $200 billion electricity business, an industry larger than either automobiles or telecommunications. The basics are simple: under deregulation plans taking shape in many states, local utilities must open their lines to any power providers that want to ship juice to the utilities' retail customers. For the first time, consumers and companies will be able to pick their electric suppliers as freely as they now choose their long-distance carriers...
...black man arrives on a slave ship 300 years ago, knowing one English word: "Nigger." It is, or might as well be, his New World name. But Niger, the river, is his origin, his blood flow, which Calvin Baker, 24, a writer for PEOPLE magazine, traces through generations to the brackish wash of present time. Naming the New World (St. Martin's Press; 118 pages; $18.95) is a writer's gamble, a brief, fast-changing swirl of prose sketches, prose-poetry, and poetry standing naked. Such a recitation--it could be chanted, to drum beats, in an evening--might dissipate...
...makes a jail visit. His junkie brother, guilty of a senseless killing, has managed to kill himself by driving a hypodermic needle into his heart. Rage, love, disgust, self-loathing--there are the beginnings here of a dozen strong novels to come, bound by racial memory of the slave ship: "At night I hear their voices, huddled close to each other. The memories beat louder and louder against my skull. Above it all, I hear the wailing, see the water...