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...years as a haven for tie-dyed twentysomethings, has a solid lineup featuring Blues Traveler and Lenny Kravitz. Meanwhile, the scrappy, year-old Warped Tour has won a following among the particular set of youngsters who enjoy punk rock, ska and skateboarding. Next week the House of Blues will launch an R. and B. tour, and in August, Perry Farrell, the progressive rocker who hatched Lollapalooza, will inaugurate a new venture: the tree-planting, obscure band-booking, alternative-to-alternative ENIT festival. Ticket prices vary from tour to tour and site to site but are usually under...
...Planet Hollywood, which he started the year before. (Hard Rock creator Peter Morton sued Earl for allegedly purloining Hard Rock's business plans. The issue was settled without a trial.) Last year Earl, a die-hard Orlando Magic fan, opened the Official All Star Cafe; he will soon launch MarvelMania (comics) and Chefs of the World (imagine--food...
...Netanyahu said himself before Congress, "Peace means the absence of violence." A piece of paper with Yasser Arafat's signed pledge officially guaranteeing Israelis peace very quickly loses all relevance when Syrian- and Iranian-backed Palestinians launch themselves as human missiles in suicide missions. What sort of negotiations can be entered into with individuals that have no respect for their own lives let alone those of the Israelis? As Netanyahu said, "Peace without personal safety is a contradiction in terms.... It is a hoax...
When NASA head Daniel Goldin declared earlier this year that the U.S. rocketry program is inferior to those of European competitors, he was only stating the obvious. True, the U.S. launches real astronauts and not just satellite payloads. But dismayed by delays, cost overruns and the Challenger disaster, paying clients began to go elsewhere. The shuttle's $80 million-per-launch cost prompted California Congressman Dana Rohrbacher to quip that it is "the most effective device known to man for destroying dollar bills...
They might, if the folks with the wherewithal to fund Lockheed's venture are convinced they'll get a return on that investment. Without government guarantees, the private sector may not be willing to put up the $4 billion to $8 billion needed to launch the VentureStar. If it doesn't, the Europeans could inherit the space-launch business. Permanently...