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Coltrane discoveries are continuing. The newly revived Impulse! label--which has already rereleased such late Coltrane albums as A Love Supreme--will release two more albums in October: the complete Africa/Brass sessions, in which Coltrane experiments with tribal rhythms, and Stellar Regions, mostly unreleased songs recorded with his pianist wife Alice only months before his death. The latest trove: 30 hours of raw tape found earlier this year, rescued as they were about to be trashed. Impulse! is negotiating to release these recordings starting next year. Dorn calls it "possibly one of the great musical discoveries of all time...
...International Community School in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where Tadesse attended high school, she was known as a stellar student. She was president of the student government and on the staff of the yearbook...
Kurilskoye Lake, in the southern part of the peninsula, offers a glimpse of a paradise lost elsewhere on the planet. Sockeye salmon choke the mouths of streams, huge brown bears and their cubs feed on cloudberries in the surrounding sun-dappled meadows, while a giant stellar sea eagle rides the thermals on the flanks of one of the volcanoes ringing the lake. Boulders made of porous volcanic rock float at the edge of the lake, seemingly defying gravity. George Schaller, the renowned and famously dour American wildlife biologist, who is visiting the region to study brown bears, looks out over...
...effort geared up, the Army was eventually cajoled into establishing one flight-training school for black pilots in Tuskegee, Alabama, in 1941. Hundreds of applications flooded in. The blacks who entered the program were a stellar group, with degrees from such top universities as Howard and Northwestern. Their military-aptitude-test scores were so high that white officers suspected cheating and made them take the tests again. Still, only five out of the first 13 trainees survived the rigorous course and the corrosive racism of some white flight instructors. Former Detroit Mayor Coleman Young and prominent New York City businessman...
...race to corner the heartburn market, Merck's Pepcid and SmithKline Beecham's Tagamet have the early lead. Both drugs boasted stellar records as anti-ulcer drugs in the prescription market and gained final U.S. approval for over-the-counter sales in April and June, respectively. Despite Zantac's late start, its popularity may enable it to overtake its rivals. Currently, it is the world's best-selling prescription drug. Analysts expect the three manufacturers together to spend some $300 million to tout their products...