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...like a time warp (Rocky Horror Picture Show 25th anniversary!) in the music store this week. On the new releases shelf sits a bizarro collection of performers that seem like a catalogue of my musical consciousness in the past: the Wallflowers, Collective Soul, Slash (recording with his Slash's Snakepit band, not with Guns N' Roses) and Tiffany. Tiffany! I half expected to see a new Wilson Phillips album...
...effort to address quality-of-life concerns voiced by its students, Harvard Law School (HLS) will slash lecture sizes and establish a House-like system of "law colleges" beginning next fall...
...Ni?o provides the tinder, but humans provide the match. Human penetration of the Amazon, rather than lightning or other natural phenomena, sparks most of the huge fires, and that penetration is increasing, along with deforestation and slash-and-burn agriculture. Fire, deforestation and roads are linked in an unholy trinity. In 1998, Brazilian authorities found themselves battling enormous fires in the states of Par? (where 40% of the southeastern forests burned), Roraima and Mato Grosso. Most blazes started near roads as settlers burned accessible forest to clear land for farms. The only reason even bigger stretches of the dense forest...
...candidates for this year's posts will be the first to hold office on a council downsized by a ballot initiative passed during last year's presidential elections. The initiative to slash the size of the council from 90 to 50 members won overwhelmingly...
...Tuesday, Lawrence Korb - assistant secretary of defense for manpower and logistics during Reagan's first term - will explain how he believes the U.S. military can slash its budget by 20 percent and retain its undisputed title as world champion. The next day, Pentagon sources say, the Joint Chiefs will troop to Capitol Hill to tell the Senate Armed Services Committee there's no way they can keep today's military humming without boosting defense spending...