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...danger" implicit in all the uproar is of empty-headed, suggestible black kids, crouching by their boom boxes, waiting for the word. But what Ice- T's fans know and his detractors obviously don't is that Cop Killer is just one more entry in pop music's long history of macho hyperbole and violent boast. Flip to the classic-rock station, and you might catch the Rolling Stones announcing "the time is right for violent revo-loo-shun!" from their 1968 hit Street Fighting Man. And where were the defenders of our law- ( enforcement officers when a white British...
...prevent the region from being overrun by immigrants. Scientific research and limited tourism will provide job opportunities for some of the 250 Pygmies who live in nearby Bomassa, but probably not enough to attract a large wave of newcomers. Of the three merchants who moved into Bomassa anticipating a boom, two have already relocated in disappointment. That's just fine with the park advocates, whose purpose is not to create new fortunes but to save the Ndoki's irreplaceable natural treasures...
...especially hotels, are scrambling for a piece of the action by offering rock-bottom prices and vacation specials. That's good news for American travelers clutching cheap, freshly purchased air tickets. But after two years of waiting for consumers to get the wanderlust again, many travel firms see the boom as a mixed blessing...
...vivid tapestry of postrevolutionary Mexico called Where the Air Is Clear, galvanized that country's literature. Four years later, The Death of Artemio Cruz, a Faulknerian tour de force narrated by a man during the final hours of his life, propelled Fuentes into the front ranks of "el Boom," the globally acclaimed wave of Latin American authors that included Colombia's Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Peru's Mario Vargas Llosa...
...school] is an easy three years and boom--you have a job," says Lisa M. White '92, who is bound for Harvard Law School. "Money plays a lot into why people are going into...