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They started out as Ronnie Hawkins & the Hawks, morphed into Bob Dylan's swaggering backup group and then struck out on their own, which makes the Band one of the few outfits actually constrained by mere five-disc treatment. Among the 37 previously unreleased tracks, there's a hysterically loose version of Highway 61 Revisited as well as a gospel take on The Weight powered by the Staples. All the Band's hits are included, but the most revealing are the "song sketches," quiet recordings that reveal the origins of the propulsive sound that followed. There are also 108 pages...
...journalist, you actually have to just dictate a story off the top of your head on the telephone, if you're at a breaking news event. I've done that a few times in my career, and never had that much of a problem with it. But I was struck dumb on the first night of the war. I was just absolutely terrified. Nothing prepares you for being suddenly on the front line of an invasion, with 200 cannons going off, and people returning fire, and being in the pitch black in the desert, knowing that you're just going...
...Naturally, I was struck by what you wrote about journalists being 10 times more likely to be killed than the Coalition forces...
...mind. Last Sept. 7th, Hurricane Ivan hammered a similar area, and Lentini, a vice president of Apache Corporation, an independent oil and gas exploration company in Houston, says that it's taken a year to get some of Apache's facilities back online. In the sixty days after Ivan struck, the Gulf lost 29 million barrels of production. "What you do as the storm approaches is you have to balance your people's safety with the country's dependence on the Gulf," says Lentini...
...global warming making the problem worse? Superficially, the numbers say yes-or at least they seem to if you live in the U.S. From 1995 to 1999, a record 33 hurricanes struck the Atlantic basin, and that doesn?t include 1992?s horrific Hurricane Andrew, which clawed its way across south Florida in 1992, causing $27 billion dollars worth of damage. More-frequent hurricanes are part of most global warming models, and as mean temperatures rise worldwide, it?s hard not to make a connection between the two. But hurricane-scale storms occur all over the world, and in some...