Word: stonings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Across the Atlantic, meanwhile, The Prisoner of Azkaban is not due to come out until Sept. 8, and kids are going berserk. It's not enough that there are more than 1.7 million copies of the first two books, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, in print in the U.S.; young readers want the new one, and they want it now. In the Henderson-Nold household in Berkeley, Calif., Nick, 12, and Will, 10, were so desperate for the next fix that Nick and his mother, Susan Henderson, went straight...
...previously unknown and unpublished Joanne Rowling, 33, who lives in Edinburgh with her five-year-old daughter, is a bit stunned at her snowballing success. "I do feel sometimes as though someone has taken the lid off my stone," she confesses. "I feel very exposed." Shunning a press tour for the new release, she is busy working on the fourth of what will be seven books--one for each year Harry attends Hogwarts, his wizard school...
...Rhythms of the Heart, Carter creates music that is wonderfully listenable, probingly intelligent and, at times, breathtakingly daring. On one track, Papa Was a Rollin' Stone, she cheekily combines classic soul and traditional jazz, with Cassandra Wilson supplying the vocals. It's the high point of a CD filled with peaks: voice and violin, darting and duetting, taking the listener into the future of jazz...
...implications are almost unimaginable - cheap, ubiquitous supercomputing, unlimited memory capacity, medical nano-devices small enough to float in the human bloodstream, and beyond - but it will be years before actual functioning molecular computers will be constructed. "This is an important stepping stone, but we still have a long way to go, " James Tour, an expert in the field who teaches at Rice University, told the New York Times. "I don't want people to think that in three to five years we'll have molecular electronics...
...king of online retail would get into software downloads or hardware sales by buying a company (Beyond.com or Onsale, respectively), Amazon developed the latest areas in-house. It shows, as Amazon extends its knowledgeable-storekeeper role to the new product offerings. Just as kindly advice from former Rolling Stone editors already suggests the essential music CDs every jazz or drum and bass lover should own, there are pointers on educational toys from Dr. Penelope Leach, a pediatrician and child-rearing expert Amazon has brought in. Amazon head Jeff Bezos also spoke Monday about expanding the new buying guides...