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Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. Mark Twain...
...helps if you have a young star like Rimes. In the past few years country's familiar gents and studs have been pushing fewer CDs, and the ladies have been pushing them aside. Country would be in an even deeper funk if it weren't for Rimes and Shania Twain, the Canadian power thrush whose The Woman in Me sold 10 million copies. Their new albums--Rimes' You Light Up My Life and Twain's Come On Over, both of which have topped the charts--are more significant as product than as music...
...Didn't Die: Mark Twain's "white town drowsing" on the banks of the Mississippi was regularly swamped by floods until a breakwater was built in 1992. When it held during the Great Flood of 1993, downtown's comeback was assured...
Reasons to Move There: Twain Memorial lighthouse anchors a grand riverfront park; next to the bronze Tom and Huck statue is the Twainland Cheesecake Co., a booming business (producing 110 varieties) run by a formerly homeless woman and staffed by onetime welfare moms. Requisite latte bar just opened downtown...
Taking the podium with a Twain-like twinkle in his eye, Studs Terkel addressed a capacity crowd of 125 people at the Askwith Lecture Hall last night...