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Young surfer girls making waves in the world of extreme sports? They will if one grown-up Betty has anything to say about it. Story
Sunday journal: Measuring time by the page
GS-3: That's my designation. Governmentese for clerk-typist. The National Institutes of Health is crawling with GS-3s this summer of 1960, most of us working to fill the time and make some money between college semesters. We draw pitiful paychecks, working at expendable jobs. Mine seems the most expendable.
More like, we can't work it out
Beatles lyrics on the Web? For one unusual Fab Four fan, a law firm won't let it be.
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The big band singer with the golden pipes lost that voice in an accident in Las Vegas more than 30 years ago. Would you believe Pete Brady is singing again? Story with audio
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PAUL WELLER, DAYS OF SPEED (EPIC): What a misnomer for this live album from the former leader of Britain's visionary The Jam. Days of Speed finds Paul Weller, the Godfather of Mod -- would that be the Modfather? -- mellow, even when he's malicious, like on the spicy old gem Town Called Malice. (Yes -- shock, shock -- the recalcitrant Weller performs songs from both the Jam and the later Style Council.)
Friends at play
Years of good karma keeps Theo Valentin and company singing and playing in sweet harmony.
