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...second album jinx and, in addition to its quadruple-platinum status in Canada, led to the band's breakthrough in the U.S. with the catchy, angst-ridden singles "Clumsy" and "Superman's Dead." The band's muscular, guitar-driven melodies and their reputation for solid live performances won them rave reviews, and the album was certified gold in the States less than a year after its release...
...Like a fox. Opera Software is not only surviving but thriving. For the past five years the company has been producing a small but fast and nimble browser to rival Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Netscape's Navigator. Opera's eponymous product has received rave reviews, and the Norwegians haven't spent a dollar on marketing.?"Opera's awesome stability and speed make it a worthwhile download," wrote the computer and technology website cnet. The latest version, Opera 5.0 was downloaded 2 million times in the first month after its release in December. Not bad for a young Norwegian...
...issue which created relatively little confusion for voters: the environment. The territory clearly belonged to former vice president Al Gore '69, who took every opportunity available to boast about his work on the Kyoto Accords, to point to his unflagging support of land preservation in the West and to rave about his "seminal work" on global warming. George W. Bush could do little than flounder in his wake, offering reassurances that paled in contrast to Gore's exuberance and which seemed irreconcilable with Bush's own support for big business...
...kids without also seeming to endorse the troubling stuff. On this past New Year's Eve, the Experience Music Project sponsored a sold-out dance party that attracted 1,200 people, including parents, teenagers and even younger children. The aim was to provide something with the feel of a rave party but without the drug scene that goes with it. Then again, the main stage attraction was the band Crystal Method, whose name is an obvious pun on crystal meth, the amphetamine-based party drug. "A band can call itself what it wants to call itself," says Robert Santelli, deputy...
Thanks at least partly to Britney, the marketing of sexy clothes and makeup to prepubescent girls is booming. Rave Girl, a national chain, sells feather boas, leather pants and stretch flares to girls ages 7 and up. "Girls' clothes started getting sexier about two years ago," says Jaime Williams, a manager at a branch outside Chicago. "Basically, everybody wants to be a princess. Not like the ones in fairy tales, but a hot princess like Britney." In Manhattan, designer boutiques like Betwixt and Infinity sell adult labels at adult prices in Alice-in-Wonderland sizes. A pair of Diesel jeans...