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Standing humbly on a tattered oriental carpet before a digital montage of photos and animations, the six-man ensemble pulsated like a system of viscerally emotive organs supported by a strong electronic backbone. As flashes of bumblebees in broken honeycombs and doves tracing a barren horizon swirled behind them, the music took shape in an ethereal fashion. Each song flowed seamlessly out of the last, with distortion filling the musical pauses to lend the concert a cohesive expression...
...mere mention of Osama bin Laden, the disturbingly jaded views of American motivations held by our supposed allies among the Afghans and the palpable danger of an arms dealer’s shed after dark are all powerfully unsettling. The inability to determine the loyalties of men standing on barren hillsides with rifles is eerily evocative of the American predicament in Vietnam. Watching the crew careen through Kabul amid real machine gun fire at least equals, and perhaps eclipses, the thrill of elaborately staged action...
STRANGETOWN IS A CREEPY place. One of three virtual neighborhoods that players can explore in The Sims 2, Strangetown is set in a barren desert landscape strewn with the remains of a space ship that is sunk deep inside a crater. Its inhabitants are even weirder. Try as he may to fit in, there's no hiding that Mr. Smith is actually a Martian. And why is that nice-looking couple, the Beakers, performing scientific experiments on that poor fellow Nervous Subject...
Paul Zerah takes a break from his five-hour-a-day Hebrew class in the West Bank settlement of Ofra, just over a barren hill from the Palestinian town of Ramallah. Only two weeks ago, Zerah, 46, immigrated to the heart of one of the world's most violent conflicts. But he feels he's left danger behind - in Paris. "I was afraid for my children there," says Zerah, who brought his wife and two youngsters to Israel. "My son couldn't walk to the Jewish school with his yarmulke on." Zerah followed his brother Marc who, in 1999, gave...
...Iceland. These dust storms, in turn, could damage the vegetation that the reindeer depend on for survival. "We are concerned about early summer winds, erosion and dust storms" taking their toll on the land, Sigfússon says. Arnalds responds that much of the region is already dusty and barren, but that soil erosion is being taken seriously in Iceland and research is under way to devise techniques to slow or reverse the process. He concedes that roughly 600 pink-footed goose nests will be lost, but says that the number represents just 1.5% of such nests in Iceland...