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...Wednesday brings the mother of all backward-looking indicators, the Gross Domestic Product number for the second quarter. The forecaster consensus - however likely that is to be slightly off - is a full-moon, goose-egg, love-love 0.0 percent, which at this point should be as much of a relief as anything. Smart economists will be leafing through the report for seeds of what we can expect going forward, namely the points taken off the GDP by hand-over-fist inventory liquidation, theoretically a good and fertile development for the seasons ahead. Here'll be the really scary news...
...momentous one for Earth. A Mars-size object roaring in at 25,000 m.p.h. struck the young planet, already largely formed but devoid of life. The glancing blow hurled molten and vaporized debris into space, where it cooled, began circling Earth and eventually coalesced to form the moon...
...center of the backpacker world is the Thai island of Koh Pha-Ngan. Evidence of the crushing weight of the 10,000 people who dance each full moon away lies a few yards offshore from the Hadrin Beach party zone. In contrast to the spectacular fish and coral found elsewhere, the waters are lifeless. The only color to be seen under the waves comes from the luminous green of a beer can or the white from a Styrofoam takeout box. Onshore, as the sun goes down, the beach could barely be more alive. Crowds of backpackers squeeze into seven beachfront...
DAUGHTER OF INVENTION: Moon Unit Zappa says that her first novel, "America the Beautiful" (Simon & Schuster Trade Paperbacks) is "17.2 percent autobiographical." The heroine, America Throne, has an unusual name, is the daughter of a famous person, and has a musician brother. "Obviously there are some similarities there," she says wryly. To say the least. Moon, as she is known to her friends, is the daughter of the late Frank Zappa, a bandleader, guitar hero, composer, satirist, and political commentator whose creativity is legendary. She admits that Growing Up Zappa was complicated business. "I?ve had enough excitement...
...Being famous from birth - Moon was born in 1967, when her father was at the pinnacle of his career - causes certain problems. "I definitely get a lot animosity from people who think I inherited a fortune or something," she says. "People really tend to think that I?m free and rich. That doesn?t make people very happy." When her book came out in England last year, two skinheads broke up her first reading in a bloody brawl. "My dad?s fans, at their worst, so miss my father that they make the mistake of thinking that this book...