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...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 don't give the producers credit for actually taking part creatively," says Logan. "With technology it's possible to do a lot of different things...
...time Prozac (fluoxetine) swept onto the stage in 1988, the new drugs had wrought a revolution in psychiatry. Long-drawn-out talking cures were shortened or replaced by prescription pills, and some doctors found their offices filled with grateful patients. "All of a sudden, we were being told, 'Gee, doc, you're great,'" recalls Dr. Samuel Barondes, a psychiatrist and medical historian at the University of California, San Francisco. No one really understood how the wonder pills worked. Nor were they always free of distressing side effects--such as the "Thorazine shuffle," the stumbling, zombie-like gait that often accompanies...
...Rumblings among the electorate But while Bush will take home the prize, not everyone is happy about the way he won it. Newspaper editorial boards, pundits and politicians alike are wringing their hands over the confusion this election has wrought - and some go so far as to call for an end to the electoral college system altogether. The process, some argue, is outdated and counterintuitive...
...majority opinion wondered aloud whether these undervotes were even legal votes at all. Clearly they had some further questions about the Florida Supreme Court's second shot at reading (and, arguably, writing) Florida law, and clearly they didn't like what that decision had wrought. And they seem poised to do more than tinker with the details...
...rest, as they say, is history. Johnson, a small-town prodigy called the Professor by his high school buddies, had wrought one of the best-selling toys ever: the Super Soaker, a pump-action water gun capable of streaming water 50 feet. In the 12 years since he first got U.S. Patent No. 4,591,071 for the "squirt gun," as it is listed in official government records, more than 200 million Super Soakers have been sold. Revenue estimates for the gun range as high as $400 million. "Lonnie is the American success story," says Dick Apley, director of independent...