Word: storm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sensitive-guy pop may be Jakob Dylan, lead singer for the folk-rock band the Wallflowers. The band's latest CD, Bringing Down the Horse, has sold 3 million copies and is still going strong. The album is actually a weary affair, but it has taken radio by storm with its Top 40 guitar hooks and introspective lyrics, and with Dylan's shadowy, intimate vocals. Does Dylan consider himself sensitive? "I think people like myself feel the same thing everyone else feels," he says. "But sometimes [people] focus on one aspect of their feelings, like anger and being repressed...
There's no reason to celebrate the demise of the Marlboro Man. He's simply living abroad. I've just returned from Guatemala, where an artful TV ad begins with a nighttime storm, stampeding cattle, restless horses and men saddling up to enact a fantasy of real men's work. At the end, machismo served and calm restored, the handsome hero lights up...his Marlboro. Why am I not surprised? Developing nations have long served as dumping grounds for everything from banned pesticides to Dalkon Shields. We've got to invent mechanisms for ensuring that multinational corporations maintain the same...
...ORLEANS: As Hurricane Danny slowly makes its way towards coastal Mississippi and Alabama, inhabitants along the coast are preparing for a bumpy ride. Danny, which was upgraded today from a tropical storm to a hurricane, has already pounded Louisiana's Grand Isle with winds up to 75 mph and storm tides as high as six feet. Heavy wind damage was reported on the island, but so far, no one has been injured, local authorities said. The island's 2,000 residents have been ordered to evacuate. The storm is currently located about 45 miles southeast of New Orleans...
...that tidy conveyor has been idle since January in favor of a more invasive coal-delivery system: a fleet of bottom-dumping trucks making more than 200 trips a day, at 80,000 lbs. per trip, to the Mount Storm plant from the nonunion Mettiki mine, 17 miles away and across the state line in Maryland. Some of the old miners claim that the switch is an old-fashioned union-busting effort, but it's both more and less than that...
...private haul road, and he protested when it increased weight limits on public highways for the mine's trucks. Along with several state legislators and environmental groups, Leone and his fellow miners opposed West Virginia's preliminary decision last March to double the visible-emissions limits for the Mount Storm plant, considered to be one of the 12 dirtiest in the Southeast. Those actions may keep lawyers for Mettiki and Virginia Power busy, but they are not likely to revive the Potomac mines...