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...andsuccessful. "Kalifornia" is the mosttechno-influenced track on the album, relyingheavily on vocal distortion and cyber sounds. Asample that sounds like a whining robot babyunites the menagerie of synthetic noises. The onlyrecognizable lyrics are the repeatedtongue-in-cheek phrase "Kalifornia is drugee,drugee." The album then takes a major U-turn in"Praise You," sporting a funky bass line, a pianoaccompaniment that sounds like it was written byBilly Joel and emotional soul vocals. Fatboy Slimkeeps the beats pumping with "Love Island," thebest and most Euro dance track, which would surgeany dance club with crowd adrenaline...
Suddenly the market did a U-turn--no, a V-turn--and rocketed 100 points. I was up $70,000 on AOL before I got confirmation that I had bought it. Dell moved 6 in less time than it takes to order a computer on the Web. Yes, you could make money if you were willing to buy something you knew and loved...
Heston sees his evolution as the result of years of reading. "I didn't change," he insists. "The Democratic Party slid to the left from right under me." He concedes one U-turn: in 1968, after the assassinations of King and Robert Kennedy, Heston endorsed Lyndon Johnson's 1968 gun-control law--a fact that his N.R.A. rivals blasted over the Internet in an effort to stave off his election. "I was young and foolish," Heston explains...
...white one!" a black screamed as a yellow Toyota passed an intersection. The driver spun his wheels frantically in an oil slick before escaping the approaching mob. Recalled white Motorist Jim Davis: "The police had put up a roadblock. I couldn't get around it. I went into a U-turn, but my car stalled and they came running at me. I heard them scream, 'Honky!' I got the car into gear and knocked them out of the way. I heard gunfire. I saw a police officer and I screamed, 'What should I do?' He said, 'I've been shot...
...Three won't U-turn away from big anytime soon. Last year sales of SUVs were up 32.4%, and truck sales of all types rose 4.5%. Passenger-car sales, in contrast, dropped 2.7%, according to Autodata Corp. of Woodcliff Lake, N.J. In that kind of market, the new Beetle is already living up to its far-out image...