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NADYA LABI, in three years at TIME, has written about the schoolyard killings in Jonesboro, Ark., and the crash of Swiss Air Flight 111. In this week's American Scene, she weighs in on a brighter topic: the culture clash in a small city outside Los Angeles, where certain residents paint their homes in vivid yellows and pinks, to the distress of some of their neighbors. While she appreciated the change of topic, the trip wasn't so lighthearted as she anticipated. "I didn't know colors could provoke such strong emotions," she says. Labi, who is moving into...
...humble payload specialist continues to get more attention from the planet below him than all other shuttle astronauts, past and present, put together. The city of Perth in Western Australia, nostalgic about the night it lit up for Glenn?s Friendship 7 fly-by, decided to go one brighter. The grand old spaceman saw their luminous display for about five minutes, and pronounced it better than 1962: "They?ve really got them lit up tonight," Glenn said. So wrapped up was the Ohio senator, he mistakenly called Houston mission control "Cape" -- which it was, 36 years...
...address the chain's problems, Nakasone's predecessor last January ballyhooed "Concept 2000," a revitalization plan calling for, among other things, less cluttered, brighter, cleaner stores. But only a month later, Nakasone took over, and in September he replaced the plan with something he calls "C-3." (Don't ask.) It targets service improvements as well as inventory reductions. It promises a $500,000-a-store renovation that will include an oval "racetrack" layout providing 18% more selling space. And it envisions a diversification into products such as clothing and electronics, which Nakasone hopes will attract more customers outside...
...counted. Nowadays, simply counting widgets doesn't tell us what's going on. Brynjolfsson likens that approach to the reasoning of the drunk in an ancient joke: he looks for his lost keys under a streetlight not because that's where he dropped them but because the light is brighter there...
...sight of various meats festering in their own juices is more than enough to send those with weak stomachs to the food stand sponsored by the local congregational church, where lighter fare such as peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and corn on the cob can be had. On a brighter note, the cotton candy and fried dough rival the food at Six Flags amusements parks' in their quality...