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...last week to pay for new roads. Many more jobs are available than in the past, but most are seasonal and pay at or near minimum wage. "In the winter everyone sits around on unemployment," says Gary Evans, a vending-machine salesman. "Mostly, though, the attitude is, 'Don't bite the hand that feeds...
...Music, Vols. 1-4 (Chandos). For Sergei Prokofiev's centennial, Boris Berman has begun a welcome traversal of all this modern master's difficult solo piano music. It's safe to say of Berman -- whose strong technique is calculated to capture both the music's lyricism and its sardonic bite -- that his artistry equals his audacity...
That certainly was true, I thought, but . . . The Fool was standing on his head juggling American flags. "Hear the sound-bite, pull the lever, Democrats are gone forever...
...total of 250 scientists, journalists and guests had gathered, waiting and waiting for the last eclipse visible from the U.S. in the 20th century. At 6:30 a.m. the celestial show began. Like a devouring sky god, the moon's shadow appeared, gouging out a perfectly rounded bite from the upper edge of the sun. Moving at 10,000 km/h (6,000 m.p.h.) -- but as slowly as a distant airplane to the human eye -- the shadow crept down the face of the sun. Soon it obscured all but a thin lower crescent that gleamed against the darkening sky like...
...denounces it as a disaster tax. At issue is the six-month-old "luxury tax" that Congress adopted last year as part of a comprehensive deficit-reduction plan. The new 10% excise tax was tacked onto such goods as pleasure boats, private airplanes, jewelry and fur. While the tax bite is not particularly severe -- a minuscule $25 million is expected to be raised in fiscal 1991 -- the levy has outraged businessmen and workers who produce and sell these items...