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...Because of poor maintenance levels across much of the fleet, the fleet can't put to sea very often, so personnel are less well trained," says Joanna Kidd, naval analyst at the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies. The Kursk, as one of the newest and most important boats in the fleet, would have received enough to keep up maintenance but probably not enough to keep up vital seatime training for navy men. "It's speculation, but their reactions might have been slow," says Kidd. Similarly, the rescue efforts may have suffered from lack of training. "If most...
...result: "Not in my backyard" is no longer limited to nuclear-power stations. In Austin, where office rents have shot up 70% and it's tough to find a square foot of commercial space for less than $40 a month, house prices shot up nearly 40% in 1999, to a median $154,900. For years, neighbors in South Austin battled against an adult-movie theater on South Congress Avenue, a street that divides the funky district from downtown. But when an Internet company called Future Protocol Inc. took its place this year, the groans of disappointment were every...
Stine's prophecy got the drift of the future right but erred on the details. It took far less than a decade for droves of young readers to desert his two series; and the other things he foresaw himself doing turn out to look spookily like the things he was doing before...
...Elastica took a less-is-more approach to its music, making every bass and guitar line distinct. Now the band frequently sounds like six musicians crammed into a small apartment and competing to be heard. The result is a more insolent, perhaps an even more youthful sound. The Menace is the work of people who have gone a little stir crazy. In rock 'n' roll, that's a good thing...
...Frischmann's songs are less lighthearted than they were five years ago. On Car Song, a cut off the first album, she sang, "In every little Honda/ There may lurk a Peter Fonda." Now when she sings, "Baby put your arms around me/ Aren't you glad that you have found me?" on the cacophonous Generator, she sounds like she knows what it is to feel undesirable. Elastica 2000 may not be as witty as Elastica 1995, but Frischmann's new vulnerability is winning enough to fend off VH1 has-been status for at least another five years...