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...hello to Baby Jet. Raburn, a longtime amateur aviator who got bored with his life as a computer-products developer, wants to produce the world's first affordable--at least to some--personal jet. Raburn intends to price his twin-engine, five-seat Eclipse 500 at a mere $837,500. The popular Cessna CJ1, by comparison, costs more than $3.7 million. "If they really can stay under $1 million, they will set the biz-jet market on its ear," says Warren Morningstar, spokesman for the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association...
...occasional prudishness of his language, as in this rendering of one of his mother's outbursts: "It were eff this and ess that and she would blow their adjectival brains out." Ned's bursts of poetry are suitable for all ages: "At night every river has a secret twin a ghost of air washing above the living water down towards the sea." Or "A fright of blood red parrots flared & swept through the khaki forest." Ned apologizes for his unconventional style, saying, "I never learned my parsing." His readers will acquit him of that charge...
...many U.S. record buyers may still resist the Chicks. Americans over the past 35 years have remained attached to the idea of rock as an earnest, romantic mode of expression, never fully embracing the proudly incompetent Sex Pistols or the proudly impersonal technowizards like the Orb and Aphex Twin, all beloved by Europeans. What could most rankle American rock audiences is the Chicks' rejection of the notions that 1) good rock music is either soulful, finely wrought craftsmanship (Radiohead) or cathartic guitar bombast (Nirvana) and 2) letting producers help compose your songs is only for teenyboppers like Britney Spears. "Bands...
...CRITICS LOVE IT A sad-eyed gay man becomes a victim-hero as he endures the twin scourges of Castro and AIDS...
Many a valiant parent has buckled under the twin strains of trust vs. responsibility that go with parenting a teen. Coed teen slumber parties bring these concerns into sharp focus. Despite the natural questions that arise (I know--you're wondering if the kids are having sex in the basement), I am convinced that these parties can work. They can be fun, memorable occasions, but only if parents take an extremely active and responsible role...