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...starting out as one guy's website. In 2000, Bob Perry, a former DJ and station manager who had moved to Connecticut to be near his wife's aging parents, started fooling around with Internet radio. He got some cheap software that allowed him to randomize song order, causing "train wrecks"--ballads followed by headbangers. He put it up as jack.fm and slid in some promos revolving around a fictitious cowboy named Jack who made fun of the DJ clichés he had heard his whole life. "I started ripping in music and said, This is cool, and this...
...reporter for the Houston Press. Having earned my first paid vacation, I boarded a train with two weeks' salary in my pocket--all of $30! My first stop was in Kansas City, Mo., where I had lived till I was 11 and where my grandparents still lived. I had planned to go on to Anna, Ill., to call on my friend, an attractive, petite brunet I'd dated in high school in Houston. After two years of love letters to her, I was keen to discover whether her feelings for me matched mine...
...best job in the country. I think the decision was made too quickly. What I hope is that as things calm down we can all sit down. They can hear all the facts to see if something can't be worked out. We just need to back the train up a notch...
...they have found a balance. Grades come first--Krystin makes straight A's--but she takes her cheerleading seriously too, which is apparent from her buff 5-ft. 2-in. frame and sculpted biceps. "I started tumbling when I was, like, 4 or 5," she says. "You have to train and be committed to the team." Besides school practices, she takes lessons with a private coach, who also happens to be her cheer sponsor, Washington--a point not missed by some of the other girls' moms who have complained about favoritism...
...fight ghosts," says policeman Samrid, a veteran of Thailand's anti-communist campaigns of the 1970s. The decree will not make the enemy any clearer. "We don't know who they are," he says. "So how can we win?" Meanwhile, wanted posters multiply at police and train stations and other public places. The Thai word for "dead"-that is, shot by security forces-has been scrawled over some mugshots, but most suspects are still at large despite the promise of hefty rewards. A $250,000 bounty is being offered for fugitive Sapaeng Basoe, the Muslim principal of Yala's Thammawittaya...