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...overstate the importance of Beyond to Hong Kong music fans under 40. In a scene long dominated by insubstantial teen idols, Beyond have been the Beatles, the Clash and Oasis rolled into one. To this day they remain the only Hong Kong band to have made the transition from underground obscurity to mainstream stardom. From their first single?1987's Songs of Yesterday?they've achieved this by espousing an openhearted, socially aware brand of rock that compensates for its occasional ham-fistedness with endearing sincerity. Through 27 albums, their songs of protest and peace have touched on everything from...
...movies. He joined the Army in 1987 and was discharged 18 months later; investigators think he may have learned about firearms and explosives while stationed in Fort Benning, Ga. Two months before the Olympics bombing in Atlanta, he sold his childhood home for $65,000. The buyers discovered an underground hiding space in it; Rudolph had dubbed it "the root cellar...
These allegations may be false. They may even have been planted--some U.S. officials believe that the speed with which a particular story makes the rounds is a good indication of the strength of the local Baath underground. But in a part of the world where rumor is a hard currency, the truth or falsehood of any specific incident hardly matters. What counts is what Iraqis believe. And they will continue to believe the worst of the Americans as long as communications between occupier and occupied remain terrible. In the office of the regional governor in Kirkuk, there are just...
...North Sea rig or in a dusty patch of Saudi desert. Instead, the 2,600-m-long steel drill is boring deep into a picturesque corner of Tuscany, fabled land of Renaissance frescoes and Chianti Classico. And the search is not for crude oil, but for boiling underground wells that can produce clean steam energy. The central Italian region happens to be the world's unrivaled mecca of geothermal energy production. In 1904 the first experiment ever in steam-powered electricity was conducted in Larderello, when five light bulbs were lit by a dynamo propelled by geothermal liquid. Nine years...
...team of geologists demonstrates the latest push to expand the search for new sources of steam. Borrowing from the most recent oil and gas drilling methods, the geologists study mineral composition and seismic activity to be better able to predict where the untapped wells are located. Still, searching underground is painstaking work. But though this one-hectare clearing in the Grosseto province has so far come up empty, the Enel team is confident from the geological findings that they are about to hit pay dirt. The other key advances are aimed above ground. Local opposition to geothermal projects in Tuscany...