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...friends spent 16-hour days in Beijing helping craft key documents. When the International Olympic Committee sent an evaluation crew to grill the committee, Phillips and his team suggested answers the Chinese might have muffed, such as making them omit the usual "evil-cult" epithet from comments on the underground Falun Gong spiritual movement. Phillips even solved Beijing's dreaded puppy problem. Many Chinese eat dogs, and dog farms import the frozen sperm of St. Bernards to breed quick-growing canine roasters. Beijing officials were certain that Swiss visitors would protest at seeing their rescue pooches on chopsticks, and they...
Whatever CCA's ultimate fate, the existing problem will probably be with us for a long time. Even when a playground is torn down, the wood must still be disposed of--not an easy thing to do. Dumping it in an unlined landfill allows arsenic to seep underground. Mulching it scatters CCA on the surface. And burning it fills the air with toxic smoke. Leaving the structures to disintegrate on their own could take a while. CCA is such an effective preservative that those pressure-treated wooden forts and castles might still be standing a generation from now. In retrospect...
...steam is primarily used for wintertime heating of Harvard’s buildings and is distributed through the campus by a series of underground walk-through tunnels and pipes...
...point? To expose what she sees as music's pervasive misogyny by animating men's songs from a woman's perspective. Amos says she invented and "befriended" a dozen different women (she has taken publicity photos dressed as all of them), through whom she sings tracks by the Velvet Underground, Neil Young, the Beatles, the Boomtown Rats and more. But it's the Eminem track that will get people talking. "Eminem represents so much right now to a whole group of people. And he's a great poet. But when you kill your wife, you don't get to control...
...many kids, the nippo-psychedelia movement allows for a welcome experimentation that is also transforming the music scene, from trance to underground rock. Ken Matsutani, manager of independent rock-music label Captain Trip Records, says he notices a telling change in his industry?namely, more mainstream acceptance of bands that were once the exclusive cultural terrain of social outsiders. Captain Trip handles a number of psychedelic, '60s-inspired acts, but Matsutani says he isn't used to any of them doing very well outside a small community of die-hard rock fans. But that has changed with the recent success...