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...inspiration of singer Perry Farrell of the now defunct group Jane's Addiction; this year the tour visits more than 20 cities. Today Rage Against the Machine, a thrash metal band, performs first. Many of the 25,000 concertgoers surge to the front, churning up a cloud of dust that will hang in front of the stage all day like a dirty shower curtain. The lead singer is wailing "F you, I won't do what you tell me," again and again and later attacks the price of Lollapalooza souvenirs. "We like this band because they're pissed off," says...
...asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago -- it threw megatons of dust into the air, blocking out the sun and putting the planet in a temporary deep freeze -- may have had company. French scientists have found rocky debris in the Pacific that's about the same age but probably came from a different object than the one that landed off Mexico's Yucatan coast. The implication is that an asteroid shower, rather than just a single asteroid, struck the earth...
Other climbers read such details and shrug. Mistake or mischance, there is nothing useful to say. This is not because the deaths are meaningless but because their meaning seems alarmingly personal. They raise the sort of dust that stirs in every mountaineer's sheaf of recollections: soft snow breaks out from under your boots on a steep slope. You slide, gaining speed. Then some mountain god flips a coin, and it comes up heads. You stop sliding, safe as a baby, a few yards above a long drop. Nothing...
Just when Clinton seems to be bottoming out, ready to dust himself off and get started again, he finds a new hole in the floor to fall through. With an approval rating of just 36%, a record low for a postwar President four months into his first term, Clinton could not afford the spectacle of last week's Lani Guinier mess. He has begun to stumble with a certain farcical rhythm, this being the third time (after Zoe Baird and Kimba Wood) he has dropped an esteemed female lawyer he had nominated or considered for a Justice Department post. This...
Instead of featuring a conservative three-yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust attack, the Multi-Flex was designed to attack a defense on every front. Putting men in motion, spreading the field, throwing the ball--the Multi-Flex probed for a weakness and exploited whatever it found...