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...flags were at half staff in San Francisco, and on one, a riot of colors replaced the traditional red, white and blue. It was the first tie-dyed flag to fly in front of city hall. The Bay Area was mourning the loss of its Papa Bear. Jerry Garcia, lead guitarist of the Grateful Dead, had died Wednesday morning at 53, reportedly of heart failure, after three decades of tunes and trips...
...fixture on radio in the '40s on the Jack Benny show and, for a time, in partnership with his wife Alice Faye. In 1947 he had a hit song with Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette). Today, he's known to the vcr generation as the voice of Baloo the Bear in Disney's animated Jungle Book...
...discovery of the vents was a major surprise, scientists were astonished to learn that at least some of these submerged geysers--whose hot, sulfurous environs bear more than a passing resemblance to hell--are actually bursting with life. Nobody had invited biologists along to study the vents because nobody imagined there would be anything to interest them. But on a dive off the Galapagos in 1977, researchers found the water around a vent teeming with bacteria and surrounded for dozens of feet in all directions with peculiar, 8-in.-long tube-shaped worms, clams the size of dinner plates, mussels...
...excerpts from "Industrial Society and Its Future" bear the stamp of an earnest thinker who has reinvented the wheel and wonders why nobody is paying attention. Modern life is hard, the Unabomber announces: "The moral code of our society is so demanding that no one can think, feel and act in a completely moral way. For example, we are not supposed to hate anyone, yet almost everybody hates somebody at some time or other, whether he admits it to himself or not." Why are things so fouled up? "The industrial revolution and its consequences have been a disaster...
...broadcast networks are looking at their best year ever in terms of advertising, with an expected $5 billion in revenues for the 1995-96 season. For a movie studio looking for a name-brand outlet for its product, the networks remain, as Raymond Katz, a media analyst at Bear, Stearns, puts it, "the most efficient marketing vehicle there...