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...penalties, as you may imagine. In the sixth grade, our teacher, having momentarily forced me to rejoin the class, asked anyone who had a musical instrument to bring it in and play it. As it happened, my aunt had bought me a guitar the day before, and though I had never played the guitar, I thought I'd do a few numbers. The next day I sat before my classmates, whose rising laughter nearly drowned out my one-chord rendition of Red River Valley. I just assumed that if I sat up there with my guitar, the ability to play...
...Tenn., Hannah Wood, 17, an assistant football trainer and chapter president of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, persuaded 250 people to form a human prayer chain on the asphalt track around the football field. At her school, officials say they could not have stopped the protest from happening, even though the plan had been featured in the local paper...
...that." Just as Miller pursues Stillwater's members for a cover story, Crowe wrangled Jimmy Page and Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin for the cover of Rolling Stone in 1975. But several rock heavyweights are reflected in Stillwater, a band that slides into discord (shades of the Allman Brothers, though no one in Stillwater dates Cher), takes a bumpy plane ride (like Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Who) and performs a song called Fever Dog, written by Crowe and his wife, Heart guitarist Nancy Wilson, with a nod to Zeppelin's Black Dog. "There's also a lot of the Eagles...
...though. After snapping some pictures on a Kodak digital camera, I plugged it into my PC. A few seconds later, up pops a window displaying every image in the camera. I could view them in slide-show format, click on the ones I liked, then either save them to my hard drive or attach them to an e-mail...
Even the title of the series on dying is targeted at boomers, though the couple disagreed on how best to approach them. Bill wanted to call it Living with Dying. Judith, knowing from surveys that audiences shy away from words like death and dying, pushed for something hopeful. On Our Own Terms, her choice, deliberately plays to the boomer conviction, she says, that "we can change things; we can control things." Bill thought the wording was wrong precisely because of that. "It feeds their egoism, their sense that they can control things," he said, "and they...