Year of Woman highlighted at AMAs with Braxton and Morissette wins
The American Music Awards crowned Toni Braxton as a leading female soul R&B artist for Secrets with a share in the Waiting to Exhale soundtrack award. Alanis Morissette won favorite pop rock female artist, Jewel and LeAnn Rimes taking two new artist trophies. Mariah Carey failed to win despite multiple nominations in the 24th ceremony hosted by Sinbad at Shrine Auditorium.
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Sinbad
AMAs Shifts Highlight Diverse Winners Across Genres
American Music Awards honored top names across pop rock country soul R&B and metal. Eric Clapton and Hootie & The Blowfish won in pop rock while Brooks & Dunn and George Strait led country categories. Keith Sweat D'Angelo and New Edition also earned honors with Metallica and Smashing Pumpkins topping hard rock and alternative awards. Whitney Houston claimed adult contemporary and winners were chosen by a national sample of about 20 000 listeners.
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Shania Twain
Brooks & Dunn
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Hootie & the Blowfish
Keith Sweat
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Metallica
Smashing Pumpkins
Whitney Houston
Balloonist Fossett plans new world flight attempt next winter
Steve Fossett says a new attempt to fly around the world will target the Nov 15 to Feb 15 season after his previous flight ended in an Indian mustard field. He notes prime winds and thunderstorm absence favor balloon travel, though time this winter is insufficient. Fossett, an ocean sailor and Iditarod competitor, is preparing a National Geographic article on his latest adventure.
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National Geographic Magazine
Estate tax relief debate roils Senate and Clinton team
Senate Republicans push an 18.6 billion five year cut targeting the estate tax arguing it devastates family farms and businesses while Clinton administration and Senate Democrats favor more modest proposals. The plan would raise the tax threshold from 600000 to 1 million in yearly steps.
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Apollo 1 victims remembered as first space heroes
In light drizzle at Cape Canaveral three Apollo 1 astronauts Roger Chaffee Virgil Gris som Edward White II were honored as brave pioneers who died during a 1967 test. An audience of about 150 including Gene Cernan heard their heroism, while NASA notes mark the era's losses near Kennedy Space Center.
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Edward White II
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NASA
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Cape Canaveral Air Station
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