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...unique blend of rock and reggae, mixing rasta rhythms with driving rock riffs. They combine standard instrumentation—drums, electric guitars and bass—with bits of vocal scat like “skittleedat dat dat, well how ‘bout that?” which augment a strong lyrical use of rhyme and alliteration. They also have a saxophone to inject a little bit of jazz into a few of songs...
...retirement system's ailments in an interim report in late July, has the makings of a classic Type B panel. It was created by the White House to produce a specific result--Executive Order No. 13210 requires its final report to propose creation of voluntary individual-investment accounts to augment the program. Chaired by former New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Richard Parsons, co-chief operating officer of AOL Time Warner (the parent company of TIME), the panel is loaded with members and staff sympathetic, if not enthusiastic, about privatizing part of the Social Security system...
...IAAF Outdoor World Championships will be held from Aug. 3 to Aug. 10 in Edmonton, where Taylor will look to augment Harvard track’s prominence at the international level...
...PENDING TO $AVE Wish putting gas in your tank could somehow lead to more money in the bank? Upromise.com has cooked up a way to augment families' college savings by getting companies such as ExxonMobil, McDonald's and Toys "R" Us to funnel a percentage of a customer's spending into a tax-deferred state tuition savings account. The membership program, which launched last week, ensures customer loyalty. Why switch to MCI if AT&T will put 4% of your monthly bill toward Junior's education...
...convinced that at this juncture, when the world of spoken language opens for the first time to an incipient consciousness, the mental foundation for the analysis of the external world is built. As the linguistically augmented bandwidth of data about the world expands, a child's developing mental machinery orders and arranges the incoming deluge into a model of the world that will serve as a foundation for the rest of their understanding. At such a crucial juncture, it seems that the opportunities for education to channel and augment this development are infinite...