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Robert Johnson: The Complete Recordings (Columbia). This isn't just music; it's American mythology, recorded in the mid-1930s and brought alive for the first time on two CDs. The blues found no deeper mystical expression than in Johnson's composing and singing...
Biggest Brewhaha Long the target of unions and minority-rights groups, Coors Brewing Co. acquired a new enemy with its popular promo for Coors Light, featuring a haunted house and the slogan "It Isn't Halloween Without the Silver Bullet." The National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence described the ad's subliminal appeal to underage drinkers as "chilling...
Cleanest Machine For the first time, a major manufacturer said it would be able to mass-produce a nonpolluting car. GM's electric Impact would be twice as expensive to operate as a regular chariot, but ever improving batteries should eventually change that. Besides, isn't clean air worth something...
...time to sell, tear apart or rebuild a home. But it might make sense to shift a child's bed away from the electric line that brings power to the house. Or to move the telephone answering machine away from the head of the bed. It isn't hard to take a step back from the TV or computer screen, and it could make a big difference in the long...
...from rotting in warehouses alongside this year's Soviet harvest. The goal is to ease the panic of Soviet shoppers, who daily confront empty shelves in government stores. Experts believe hoarding, born of fear, is exacerbating the shortages -- and that cannot be solved by credits alone. "If the problem isn't with how much they can grow, the solution isn't going to be in how much more they can buy abroad," notes Richard Feltes, vice president of Chicago-based Refco, one of the world's largest commodities brokers...