How dare rock stars go classical? What is Sting doing, taking up a 16th-century gloombag named John Dowland? Why is Paul McCartney trying to write another oratorio? But Sting's Songs from the Labyrinth, with the Bosnian lutenist Edin Karamazov, and McCartney's Ecce Cor Meum, with full orchestra, chorus, boys' choir and soloists, are just the latest genre-bending albums to cause a furore.
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It's cheap, addictive and can harm your smile for life. Its use is also rapidly increasing both nationally and world-wide. It is methamphetamine. According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, more than 12 million Americans age 12 and older reported they had tried methamphetamine at least once in their lifetime.
He was a 344-pound virtually homeless 16-year-old. Now he is one of the more highly valued teens on the planet. To cross that chasm took a lot of luck and a lot of people playing out of position where stereotypes would have placed them.