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...actually a constellation of crack musicians that revolved around the core of Walter Becker, who played guitar and bass, and Donald Fagen, whose keyboards and reedy, world-weary vocals helped give Steely Dan its inimitable sound. The duo reached a stylistic apotheosis with the 1977 album Aja, a seamless amalgam of rock and jazz idioms that spawned the single Peg. Three years later, Becker and Fagen joined forces one last time for Gaucho, before, in Fagen's words, reaching "a dead...
...real villain is the mercury that makes up about 50% of dental amalgam. In a study reported in the journal Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, monkeys with mercury fillings showed a jump in drug-resistant bacteria from 9% to 70%; when the fillings were removed, resistance dropped to 12%. It seems the genes that protect bacteria from mercury lie close to those that protect against antibiotics, so bugs that survive one tend to survive the other...
Bookends succeeds only when it maintains its comic focus. As a serious exploration of relationships or paranoia it is on less reliable footing. With judicious cutting to emphasize its strong points, Bookends would be a solid comic work rather than a mismatched amalgam of ruminations and jokes...
...This is our time," Clinton said in his Inaugural Address. "Let us embrace it." Last week he had an embrace for everyone, and not just the stars. This huggy-bear President needs to feel the electromagnetism of approval -- but in a New Age way. His seeming candor is an amalgam of born- * again witnessing and self-help testifying, of the church and the couch; you half expect his budget package to be a 12-step program. "I used to play my saxophone a lot, sometimes when I was angry but usually when I was lonely," Clinton told Mister Rogers during...
...achieve these goals, Clinton is fashioning a new amalgam of several different models for reform. The central feature of the emerging plan is so- called managed competition, under which American workers and retirees would be grouped into huge insurance pools. Employees of small companies, for example, which normally would be unable to negotiate affordable coverage for a handful of employees, would gain the advantage of being represented as part of larger worker pools. The pools would have the clout to negotiate better rates and benefits with medical providers, including hospitals and physician groups. All employers, no matter how small their...