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...Such grandiose fancies are usually discarded when the footloose dreamer returns home, where the demands of "real" life make themselves known. Yet for two decades, Beale inwardly nourished his obsession, and now it has taken on hardwood reality: Beale's reconstruction of the eighth century Indonesian schooner depicted at Borobudur is now under sail in the Indian Ocean, on its way to Africa, manned by a multinational crew. The 19-meter-long ship is retracing the route of its ancient prototypes, which are believed to have formed the earliest transoceanic sailing fleet in history...
...index has shot up 60% from a seven-year low in March, two leading indicators are also pointing to an upswing in the second half of the year. The ZEW Center for European Economic Research reported that its survey of financial analysts and institutional investors had risen for the eighth straight month in August. And the widely watched Ifo index of business confidence in Western Germany rose from 89.2 in July to 90.8 in August, its fourth consecutive rise. The Munich-based economic institute surveys 7,000 executives each month about production, orders and inventories. "We've turned the corner...
...This week [Herbie Mann] was voted the top musician in his field for the eighth consecutive year in the Down Beat magazine readers' poll... With a canny eye on the box office, Mann has attracted a devoted following from the 'lay and fringe public' with a unique amalgam of jazz and ethnic music. Last week in Manhattan's cavernous Village Gate, the Herbie Mann Septet was serving up one of its typical jazz potpourris: gently infectious bossa nova, thumping Afro-Cuban, variations on a North African tribal chant, a Middle Eastern treatment of the theme from Fiddler on the Roof...
What were you doing the summer you were 13? MICHELLE WIE just finished eighth grade in Honolulu, but instead of hanging out at the Gas 'n' Sip like all the other kids, she won the U.S. Women's Public Links Championship, which makes her the youngest player ever to win a USGA event, and last week she made the cut at the U.S. Women's Open. But don't feel bad. Sure, Wie can pound 300-yd. drives like Annika Sorenstam. But she has yet to turn pro and start pulling down Tiger Woods money. Next year she plans...
...Phair. "I don't expect my album to be everything to everybody," she says. "It's just one kind of record, and you should have many in your collection. It's also not my entire artistic statement. It's the fourth record. There'll be a sixth and an eighth." It's anyone's guess who she'll be singing for by then. --By Josh Tyrangiel