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While Nashville studios make music that's as glossy as any, there's an upsurge of plain-singing balladeers stressing their Appalachian roots (real or imagined).
A NYT front-pager warns that the social ill effects of fearing the Y2K problem--such as bank runs, hoarding of food and gas, fires caused by newly acquired wood stoves and a rise in gun violence accompanying the upsurge in gun sales to those fearing post-millennial-bug civil unrest--could end up being much worse than any pure outcome of the problem itself, especially since the actual problem is being attacked with billions of dollars of remediation.
Seriously, I think the dirty secret that helps explain the upsurge in adventure travel and other forms of risk-taking is that Americans are bored with prosperity.
A front-page WSJ feature on the current upsurge in home buying notes a troublesome undercurrent.
To enhance Algeria's chances of peace, Pakistan's Dawn said in an editorial that the recent upsurge of political violence--at least 130 people have been killed by armed extremists in recent weeks--must "not be allowed to weaken or derail" the peace efforts.