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...there an American composer more important, more familiar and yet more obscure than Scott Joplin? His signature tune, The Maple Leaf Rag (1899), was the first piece of sheet music in America to sell a million copies, and after the 1973 release of the film The Sting and its accompanying soundtrack, his rag The Entertainer was heard constantly all over the country. And yet this genius, whose ambition it was to merge white European classical forms with black American rhythms and harmonies, has remained a shadowy historical figure, a mysterious creature of the late 19th century urban demimonde...
...deadline for an invasion has been determined, and the Jamaica meeting hasn't set any U.S. military wheelWAR BUDDIES? Even though the Carribean troops likely won't be part of an invasion, TIME's Thompson says, the operations-level staff at the Pentagon is eager to draw a "fig leaf" of international cover over their all-U.S. invasion cast, Persian Gulf-style. If force is used, he says, look for a token contingent from Canada...
...wait! There's trouble in paradise. You can hear it on most summer mornings and evenings, and sometimes all day long, in the distance or as close as your next-door neighbor's: the whine and roar of power lawn mowers, leaf blowers, chain saws and other unbelievably grating gizmos, grinding away to keep that cherished patch of lawn tidy and green...
...noise is the least of it. It turns out that America's 89 million small garden engines are fouling the very land they tend. Gas-guzzling lawn mowers, leaf blowers, weed cutters and the like produce 5% of U.S. air pollution overall, and a good deal more in many metropolitan areas. A dirty, inefficient 3.5-hp. gas mower emits the same amount of hydrocarbons in one hour as does a new car driven 340 miles. A chain saw operated for two hours produces hydrocarbons equivalent to those emitted by a new car driven 3,000 miles. Furthermore, the Environmental Protection...
...down the line instead of only crosscourt," she says, "I would have won two more French Opens." In her mind, she is getting better -- craftier at her game plan, defter at her execution. On court, the story is the same old sad one, the fluttering fall of an autumn leaf, glinting brightly and waving in the wind, yet fated to come to earth...