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...long before Mattel jacked up the price of Barbie and the CPI confirmed rising prices, real people were feeling the sting. Making matters worse, after adjusting for the cost of living, the average wage in the U.S. has been in a down trend for nearly two years. For folks making less, even a touch of inflation imposes hardship...
What's New? Low- slung chopper bikes reminiscent of the 1960s are back in vogue with new twists, such as the stick shift on Schwinn's Sting-Ray Three ($250). An electric version ($400) races up to 15 m.p.h. Tip: Specialized, Giant and others sell chopper bikes too so bargain shopping can pay off. Sears' Huffy model is a steal...
...purchased The Police’s “Outlandos D’amour” the other day, without knowing why. I’d never been particularly fond of the band; in fact, I’ve always had a strong personal distaste for Sting in particular. And yet, there I was in my room, peeling the shrink-wrap off the English lads’ animated faces...
Listening to Mice Parade created an itch that needed to be scratched. For whatever reason, Sting was there, with his hooks and verses and bridges and choruses, to scratch that itch...
Vaguely aware of high HIV/AIDS rates on the African continent, I was overwhelmed as Aubourg’s presentation rolled through the statistics that have become increasingly familiar to me, yet have never lost their sting as a reminder of the level of human catastrophe which faces us at the dawn of the 21st century. Since the AIDS epidemic emerged in the early 1980s, over 15 million Africans have died. In 2004 alone, another 3.1 million became newly infected with the disease and 2.3 million sub-Saharan Africans lost their lives to it. To put that staggering figure in context...