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While the government has opened more than 30 shelters, many residents have chosen to remain near their homes or move into tents set up in parks and city squares. Blue-plastic tents dot the landscape from the beach town of Cerro Azul, made famous in the Beach Boys song "Surfin' Safari," to the city of Ica, 160 miles south of Lima, the capital. Major landmarks that identify this part of Peru have been lost. Centuries old churches collapsed, museums in Pisco and Ica are now little more than debris. Even natural rock formations, including one known as the Cathedral popular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recovering from the Peru Earthquake | 8/20/2007 | See Source »

...Champion Boston Red Sox weren't the only athletes on the Hill last week. Virginia Reps. Bob Goodlatte (R), Virgil Goode (R) and Jim Moran (D) were there as Shaquille O'Neal was sworn in as an honorary deputy U.S. marshal as part of his work with the Safe Surfin' Foundation, a group that works on protecting kids from meeting potential sexual predators online. Next week could also be star-studded: As part of a hearing on steroids, the House Government Reform Committee has invited baseball players Jose Canseco, Jason Giambi, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa, as well as Commissioner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting the GOP Behind Bush on Social Security | 3/10/2005 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Out of Doors | 11/18/2002 | See Source »

...Beach Boys' Surfin' U.S.A. RE-VERSED On Fire for the Lord...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just Give Me That Biblical Rock 'n' Roll | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

...interim has a white quintet been so crucial to pop music? Some critics have optimistically observed that the Backstreet Boys might take their music in hand and morph from tools of industry to pop-craft artists, just as the Beach Boys went from the straight-up teen fun of "Surfin' USA" to the angst of Pet Sounds and the mastery of "Good Vibrations." Then again, Brian Littrell is no Brian Wilson, and such a turnaround seems unlikely...

Author: By By BEN E. lytal, | Title: Genrecide; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Beach Boys | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

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