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...days, rumors have circulated that Michael Jackson was startin' somethin'. And Thursday afternoon, before a couple of thousand screaming fans at London's 02 arena, the King of Pop revealed what has been referred to as "the worst kept secret in the world" - namely, a 10-concert residency beginning July 8 - his first slate of shows in 12 years...
...wouldn't leave Crawford until she met with the President, hundreds of activists flocked to the town. International camera crews and celebrities soon followed. As the antiwar crowds grew, pro-Bush protesters gathered in equal numbers; by the end of the summer, tiny Crawford was overflowing with several thousand visitors. (See pictures of Crawford...
...when the lights came up I remembered that I had gotten such access to cover the expansion Boston Blazers, one of twelve National League Lacrosse teams trying to gain footing in a crowded U.S. sports market. Despite generous helpings of thunder sticks, the few thousand fans below me did not seem to register on the arena’s Noise-O-Meter, causing me to question this device’s accuracy. At the opening faceoff between the Blazers and visiting San Jose Stealth, I looked down with contempt, a spoiled American fan accustomed to nationally-hyped sports action...
...million years ago, it's the fact that we're designing and making stone tools. And at 2 million years ago what makes human is our large brains that are at least two and half times the size of a chimp's. At twenty thousand years ago, what makes us human is the ability to make beautiful cave art. It's all relational. And if you look at us today, I wonder if we are human...
...Averting dangerous climate change is going to take smart policy, vast technological change and brave entrepreneurs, but it will also require a popular social movement that can alter American values. Global warming is far from inspiring that kind of change - the Capitol plant protest still only attracted a few thousand people - but it is beginning and it is growing, and a snowstorm isn't likely to stop...