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...scientist Kris Deschouwer. Sensitive scarcely begins to describe it. The country is still shaken by the discovery last August of a child-kidnapping ring that preyed on young girls. A 12-year-old and a 14-year-old who had been abducted and raped were freed from a macabre underground dungeon in a home of the accused ringleader, Marc Dutroux, near the southern city of Charleroi. Police dug up the bodies of four other girls, ages 8 to 19, missing for more than a year. The tragedy transfixed Belgium, and national TV broadcast their funerals live. Shock then turned...
Then last August, Rosenthal met Joe Seta and Nora Rothrock, proprietors of a site on the World Wide Web called Artists Underground www.aumusic.com) who invited the band to post a sound clip on their Website and participate in a live "computercast" concert. In September, Twenty Cent Crush made its cyberspace debut, playing a gig at L.A.'s Billboard Live that was piped directly onto...
...music CDs are among the biggest sellers (along with books, flowers and pornography). Buyers get to sample songs before they purchase, and they enjoy modest discounts (typical price: $9.95 a CD); sellers save a fortune on overhead and can carry a much wider selection of performers. Internet Underground Music Archive www.iuma.com) one of the pioneers in the online-music business, got its start peddling the CDs of unsigned bands that nobody had ever heard of. Today the seven-person company carries 1,000 bands (the current favorite: Kaka Pussy), draws more than a quarter of a million hits...
Some Internet Underground bands have since signed with major labels, including Euphoria (Island Records) and the Mermen (Mesa/Atlantic). "I see this happening more and more," says Patterson. "My hope and vision are that this will create a middle-class musician. Right now, a band has to become a superstar to make a living. But with Net distribution, any band can get its stuff out and make a profit...
...dwindling band of zealous believers, Hiss was one of the first victims of anticommunist hysteria, an American Dreyfus. Yet the weight of historical evidence indicates that Hiss was what he steadfastly denied ever being: a member of the communist underground and a Soviet spy. What made his case so intriguing was that his profile seemed at odds with the stereotypical idea of a grubby turncoat. His patrician grace had somehow survived a family life streaked with tragedy. His father, a wholesale grocer, committed suicide when Alger was two; a sister, Mary, also killed herself. Yet Hiss's advancement in life...