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Dean Roumanis, chief operating officer and part owner of Krell Industries, died Sunday, July 30, of a heart attack, one day after being taken to the hospital following chest pains he experienced after a long bicycle ride. He was 52.

<B>No CDs for you, Tower:</B> <I>The Los Angeles Times</I> <A HREF="http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-tower4aug04,0,736949.story?coll=l…; August 4 that Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and EMI have cut off CD shipments to Tower Records because the record chain has stopped paying its bills. Sony BMG may have also stopped shipping to Tower, but the <I>Times</I> was not able to confirm those reports.

One of the great sopranos of the 20th century, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, died in her sleep at her home in Schruns, Austria, on August 3, at the age of 90. The myriad ways in which she employed her remarkably expressive, silvery soprano gave rise to as much admiration and respect as her penchant for incessant nuance, along with her Nazi past, generated controversy.

<i>I see her from across the pool. She's tall and beautiful and dressed all in white.</i>

<I>The Age</I> profiles Dava Sobel, author of <I>Longitude</I> (very highly recommended), <I>Galileo's Daughter</I> (ditto), and now <I>Planets</I>.

Bagheera is no shirker. A little heat wave doesn't deter her from her daily duty of making sure our block is thoroughly observed&mdash;especially those good-for-nothing squirrels.

Huckleberry continues his lie-down strike, protesting his exclusion from the air-conditioned bedroom.