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JELLY ROLL MORTON: THE JELLY ROLL MORTON CENTENNIAL -- HIS COMPLETE VICTOR RECORDINGS (Bluebird/RCA). This jaunty, saucy pianist with a diamond-studded tooth and an ego as big as Mount Rushmore claimed to have invented jazz. He didn't quite do that. But he did compose, arrange and perform some of the greatest jazz ever played, as this digitally remastered 5-CD set, spanning the years 1926-39, amply demonstrates...
...further escapades of Ayla and her blond boyfriend, Jondalar the toolmaker, are set in the Dordogne, where Auel has been exploring caves and sifting dirt on an archaeological dig. "I found some pieces of flint and a reindeer milk tooth," she says proudly, as she huffs up a path to an Ice Age rock shelter. Far below, a narrow valley is bathed in mist. On a forested bluff, a medieval fortress glows in pale yellow light. "The vegetation was different then," she says. "But I need to know the lay of the land, where the ridges are, where the high...
...young adolescent, and also the wearying energy, sloppiness, ignorance and complete lack of subtlety and taste. At the length of a good ghost story, he is amusing and enjoyable with spooky stuff about, for example, an airliner, most of whose passengers disappear as it flies, leaving behind (wow!) their tooth fillings and pacemakers; and a well-sketched village miser who steals a Polaroid camera that obstinately produces shots of (eek!) a savage...
Should a teenage girl have the right -- and the burden -- of deciding about abortion on her own? Isn't abortion at least as serious a medical procedure as a tonsillectomy or a tooth extraction, both of which require parental involvement in most states? Shouldn't the law force a parent and a child to communicate, especially if the child is in trouble...
...Science in the Public Interest, finds it ironic that "the same companies that are making cereals with whole grain, lots of dried fruit, high fiber and few preservatives for adults are still using sugar and refined flour and artificial flavoring for kids." Most everyone agrees the sweet stuff promotes tooth decay. "I tell kids they should throw away the cereal and eat the boxes," says Richard Holstein, a New Jersey children's dentist. "At least they'd get some fiber...