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...know disco has always taken a lot of heat - hedonistic lyrics, monotonous beats, too gay by half - but look at the context. I mean, the Eagles? At least disco was still moving. Rock had crawled into those dry L.A. riverbeds and died. The gays of New York were leading the way, opening a door that led to raves, techno, jungle, ambient, and a host of other styles that still dominate nightlife and creative recording...
...years ago he finished 38th in the men's pack with a personal record of 2:27. While professional runners fell to the weather conditions, Harte outlasted the heat...
...undertake the cuts lightly. "It's one of the hardest, most gut-wrenching decisions you can make as a leader," Michael Dell told TIME. The layoffs are, he admits, "an admission that we screwed up" by overhiring. If there's a lesson, he says, it's that "when things heat up quite a bit, we should take some pause...
...trail their industries in productivity, profitablity and shareholder value. "A lot of downsizing is simply done as a message to external constituencies, especially Wall Street," he says. Dell's stock, for instance, rose 9% the day the cuts were announced. It had fallen 62% since March 2000, putting heat on Dell for this kind of move...
While we're waiting for a national policy on global warming, there are plenty of steps households can take to fight the coming heat. Americans put out an average of 20,000 lbs. of carbon dioxide (CO2) a year. Taking action would make us healthier (by making the atmosphere cleaner) and wealthier (by lowering bills for electricity, heating fuels and gas). Here are some suggestions from Environmental Defense and the World Wildlife Fund...