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'Cool News' heats up World Wide Web

Once upon a time, people read about the news in newspapers the day after it happened. Then people watched the news on television hours after it happened. Now people get their news on the Internet seconds after the events take place. The World Wide Web has not only made the world smaller; it has made accessing news and information an instantaneous process.

Country's 'first lady' Wynette dead at 55

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tammy Wynette, who rose from beautician to ''the first lady of country music'' with hits including ''Stand by Your Man,'' died Monday. She was 55. Wynette, who had a history of health problems, died Monday evening at her home, said spokesperson Wes Vause. The cause of her death was not immediately disclosed.

Willis' 'Mercury' falls from lack of substance

One would think that there wouldn't be a larger source of creativity and originality than Hollywood, hub of the thousands of exciting and captivating movies that have ever been produced. This may be true, but it seems as lately though the scriptwriters for blockbuster hits ran out of new plots for their movies.

Chrome sparkles in Detroit

Bands are like families. They have complicated, and often bitter, interpersonal dynamics. And Chrome has as complicated a home life as anyone. Cobbled together 20 years ago into its classic incarnation with the song writing duo of Helios Creed on guitars and vocals and Damon Edge on synthesizer Chrome was a major force in the creation of electronic music today.

'Work' bleeds with mundane

The only mystery in Michael Connelly's "Blood Work" is how it managed to be published. The novel is a long, poorly written cliché. "Blood Work" traces the investigations of Terrel McCaleb, a retired detective convalescing from a recent heart transplant.

Extravaganza stimulates Undergraduate expression

With the spark of a pen, words ebb onto a withered spiral notebook with the fluidity of a river. A voice, fused with the spiritual essence of life and a cup of coffee, cries out to pour itself nakedly in the open for anyone to hear its brief moment of epiphany.

04-08-98

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