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...looking really great. There are some really solid studies that have been published, so I think you'll start to get an inkling of what your risks might be. It's not 100%, and it might change slightly over time, but you are kind of catching the wave - by getting in now you'll get an early look ... It's really for those people who are the early adopters of a lot of technologies...
...Indian tribe was murdered by Massachusetts militiamen who called themselves ''faithful followers of Jesus Christ.'' After the Spanish-American War, American soldiers chased down Filipino rebels and burned their villages because the U.S. claimed the right to Christianize them. Today Christian Serbs are slaughtering Bosnian Muslims, and antiabortion fanatics wave their Bibles in one hand and torch family-planning clinics with the other. When it comes to violence, Christians take a backseat to no one. Forrest G. Wood Bakersfield, California
...song called Release, for which no lyrics are given, perhaps because the subject matter is too painful for Vedder to see in print. It captures the feeling of embracing the past, with all its hurt and controversy, and setting out on a new course. "I'll ride the wave/ Where it takes me," Vedder sings, imagining he is singing to his lost father, dreaming that he is uniquely himself but still somehow an amalgam of his father and his past. "I'll hold the pain/ Release me." It's a healthy attitude in a music genre ruled by high school...
...erecting burning barricades. Along the Harry Truman Sea Drive in the capital, angry youths hurled rocks and pieces of iron at passing motorists. Observed Port-au-Prince Businessman Roger Savain: ''Any country that has such a legion of poor and unemployed is a volcano ready to erupt.'' The wave of unrest was also directed against the unpopular Colonel Williams Regala, the Interior Minister and a member of the ruling junta. Regala was blamed for a clash between demonstrators and security forces that occurred in April at the notorious Fort Dimanche Prison during a memorial service for thousands of Haitians...
...Sigue Sigue Sputnik is a British band dedicated to new-wave rock music and what the group's bassist, Tony James, calls designer violence. The group is about to make a major breakthrough: its first LP, Sigue Sigue Sputnik Flaunt It, will be released in July in Britain--complete with commercials. The record has the ambiguous distinction of being the first to hawk wares between the cuts. Eight to ten 20- to 30-second tracks on the EMI record will extol such salables as cellular mobile telephones and fashion and youth magazines. According to Sigue Sigue, each advertising track will...