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...countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union have tougher problems. Faced with a collapsing economy, rising crime and open fighting among its members, the new Commonwealth of Independent States has pushed environmental issues far down on its list of priorities. The Russian people show no special interest in the ozone problem. Whatever aerosol cans and foam products make it to market in Moscow these days are immediately snapped up by buyers who either do not know about CFCs or do not particularly care...
...some of the best jumpers on the hills at Courchevel will be flying with their skis forming an ungainly but aerodynamic V shape. As innovator Jan Boklov, a Swede, has demonstrated, jumping in this manner improves lift and can lengthen jumps 16 to 23 ft. But "the landings are tougher," says French jumper Steeve Delaup. "You lose more control." He favors the traditional style...
This devastating chronicle reminds you that no one in all of rock hangs tougher than LOU REED. There are all those metalheads and strutters, but they're poseurs up against the rage and uncertainty that infuse Reed's new MAGIC AND LOSS (Sire/Warner Bros.). None of them have the dark courage to take on the themes Reed wrestles with here: waste, cancer, death. One of rock's most unyieldingly personal writers, Reed has taken to setting down, in music, what amounts to speculative autobiography. This record has the brutal immediacy of a diary kept by someone who cannot look away...
Leake always draws the tough assignments: Princeton's Sean Jackson and Pennsylvania's Paul Chambers. But Petersen will be tougher than both of them...
...kind of blew them out of the rink," Sneddon said. "I think it's going to be a much tougher game down there...