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DIED. Maynard Ferguson, 78, Canadian-born trumpet virtuoso who lent his dazzling, shrieking high notes to 60 albums and several of his own Big Bands, which reinterpreted pop songs (including the Beatles' Hey Jude) and helped revive the genre; in Ventura, Calif. In the late 1970s Ferguson, who credited yoga with his ability to hit double high Cs, found brief mainstream fame with Gonna Fly Now, his Top 40 version of the theme song from Rocky...
...history of pop music, there is exactly one good song about celebrity: Fame, which required the combined effort of David Bowie and John Lennon to be brought into existence. Otherwise, from the Rolling Stones' Star Star to Britney Spears' Lucky, the subject has been a disaster for any artist who comes near it. It's not that people aren't interested in celebrity--Mary Hart's summerhouse is a monument to the contrary--but that the pleasures it provides are voyeuristic, defined completely by the distance between the famous person and the average viewer. But great pop music erases distance...
...Before You Pop That Pill Are you freaked out by the insert that comes with your medication? Here's what you really need to know about those warnings, as well as other pill-related issues
...overcharging us--selling us stale bread and bad meat and wilted vegetables ... First it was Jews, then it was Koreans, and now it's Arabs. " ANDREW YOUNG, civil rights leader, ex--U.N. ambassador and Wal-Mart lobbyist, on why the retail titan is right to displace urban mom-and-pop shops. He later apologized and resigned his Wal-Mart post...
...when Marathon Oil decided in 2002 to expand its natural-gas operations to Bioko (pop. 250,000), just off the coast of Equatorial Guinea, company managers focused their attention on the region's crippling malaria rate. Marathon concluded that protecting only its employees and contractors wouldn't be enough. Because mosquitoes will bite anybody and Marathon expects the island facility to be productive for 40 years or more, the company adopted a more ambitious goal: it is working with its business partner Noble Energy, nonprofit organizations and the Equatoguinean government to stop transmission of the disease on the island within...