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DIED. BOBBY HATFIELD, 63, the tenor half of the "blue-eyed soul" duo the Righteous Brothers; of undetermined causes; in Kalamazoo, Mich., shortly before a scheduled performance at Western Michigan University. Born Robert Lee Hatfield, he (below, right) and Righteous Brothers partner Bill Medley, singing bass, helped transform white pop by bringing an emotional freedom to their music that was previously the province of African-American singers. The pair's breakout hit, You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin', topped the charts in 1965 and went on to become one of the most popular songs in radio history...
...players and burners are becoming increasingly popular, so it was probably only a matter of time before electronics makers started putting DVD burners right into their camcorders. After all, why hook your camera to the TV when you can just pop out the disc and toss it in the player? (The 8-cm discs can also be played on most PCs with DVD-ROM drives.) Hitachi was the first to launch DVD camcorders, back in 2000, but they were bulky and expensive. The new, slimmed-down versions are cheaper and easier to use. Hitachi's DZ-MV350A ($900, left...
...Until Big got sick. Big is Thai pop star Apichet Kittikorncharoen, the 21-year-old lead singer of the successful boy band D2B. On his way home from a rehearsal session in late July, Big accidentally drove his car into a klong. A passerby jumped into the water, pulled him from the car and performed CPR. And Big?to the relief of hordes of Thai teens?breathed again. Though badly shaken, he was expected to make a quick recovery...
...parent, Yum! Brands, which also owns Pizza Hut and Taco Bell fast-food restaurants, isn't stopping there. After flooding the country's largest urban areas with KFC outlets, the U.S. company is now on an expansion tear in the hinterlands, trying to reach smaller cities like Qiandaohu (pop. 45,000). "We open over 250 KFC restaurants a year [in China] and expect to do that for many years to come," says Yum chairman and CEO David Novak, who is based in Louisville, Kentucky. Yum executives are so confident of their footing in China that they are introducing...
...Harvard Chinese Yo-Yo Club performed numerous tricks to Chinese pop music, using a yo-yo-like device in which a grooved cylinder is moved by a string attached between two sticks. The performers lost control of their intricate tricks a number of times...