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...Peninsula: Can you spell f-a-s-c-i-s-t? Just lift up the white hood...Nein, mein Herr...
When Britons started falling ill last year, some scientists concluded that that was just what happened. If cattle feed was indeed the indirect avenue of the recent infections, it could spell big trouble, since most Britons ate from a contaminated meat supply for at least 10 years. Just how many got bad beef is what the Nature paper tried to determine...
Even the most loyal Sears workers at the new store in suburban Glen Burnie, Maryland, can hardly believe it as they watch merchandise disappearing from their stores faster than they can spell R-E-B-O-U-N-D. Three years ago, the company was closing stores and slashing its work force. On a single day last month, 10 new Sears stores opened, including this glistening emporium anchoring the Marley Station mall in suburban Baltimore, Maryland. Store manager Leslie Wendorf, 43, who has worked at Sears for nearly two-thirds of her life, still can't get over "how much...
...Dark Places (Knopf). James Ellroy's mother was murdered in 1958, when her only child was 10. The crime was never solved, and the son affected to be glad he was no longer under her strict spell. But now that he has grown famous as a writer of crime fiction--by no coincidence--he has decided to re-open the case and his own wounds. Ellroy's search for his mother's killer transcends the personal; it is a gripping meditation on the men who kill and the women who die at their hands...
...another signal that alternative rock is facing rocky days ahead, MTV plans this month to start playing less alternative rock and to program more of other genres, including electronic dance music and traditional pop, which could spell trouble for bands like the Presidents of the United States of America that have thrived on video exposure. "What MTV does is both lead and reflect what's going on out there," says MTV programming director Andy Schuon. Some observers partly blame the channel's haste to introduce new acts for the current industry downturn. "MTV often breaks acts too quickly," says...