Counter-culture Burning Man suffers growing pains
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BLACK ROCK DESERT, Nevada  - Erika stood in torn fishnet stockings, shorts leaving little to the imagination, examining an exhibit on electric cars set up in the middle of the Nevada desert at the countercultural Burning Man festival.
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Ken Burns&#39; documentary  about World War II will come in two flavors, one with curse  words and one without in the hopes that the PBS stations can  avoid government fines for indecency.
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If ever there were an institution that would appear to be impervious to the heat of America's immigrant melting pot, it is the sushi bar.
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This documentary chronicle of the hardcore punk movement in first half of the 1980Âs imagines an underground culture that was more than a new generationÂs style of hormonal eruption.
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Mel Gibson's film Apocalypto, about the Mayan civilisation, is criticised by indigenous Mayan activists.
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The Republican National Convention is in town. There&#39;s a lot of protesters here. It feels just like the &#39;60s. The air is full of the aroma of tear gas and weed.
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ALBANY, Ga. -- For a quarter century, chefs at pricey steakhouses have been searing meat on burners that cook with infrared energy. Now the high-temperature technology may be coming to a backyard barbecue near you.
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apart from the smell, the self-hate, the social exclusion and all the exciting diseases - is that it&#39;s a very hard habit to defend.
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Disdaining environmentalism in the battle against global warming.
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Tourists struggle with the wisdom and ethics of vacationing in disaster-hit regions.
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BOULDER, Colo. -- Like the adage here on Earth, so goes it for Mars: One person's junk is another's gold mine -- in this case, charred and busted up pieces of a heat shield.
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Marcel Dawson can tick off a litany of dislikes about the South Bay Center: The press of swirling traffic and swarms of shoppers. The big box stores and concrete block architecture. The gritty setting that can be intimidating come nightfall.
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Filmmakers using relatively cheap digital technology throw a harsh light on the plight faced by indigenous societies trying to survive the intrusion of a modern world. Jason Silverman reports from New York.
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The United States' war on terror is often portrayed abroad as an attempt to impose a bellicose culture, driven by the cultivation of fear.
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Some say strict measures endanger ecosystems, but others say those concerns are excuses for pro-immigrant sentiment
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By Brian Nearing, Albany Times Union, N.Y.  Feb. 8--COLONIE -- The electronic marquee outside a Wolf Road hotel Wednesday looked like something from the sci-fi double feature at a 1950s drive-in: Invasive Plants.
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Battling fires and rescuing people, though fascinating to behold, doesn&#39;t necessarily make for compelling drama. The challenge is telling a story that&#39;s true to the episodic nature of firefighting, yet not