Word: bents
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SILVERTIDE. Meet lead singer Walt Lafty, lead guitarist Nick Perri, rhythm guitarist Mark Melchiorre, bassist Brian Weaver and drummer Kevin Frank—five shaggy-haired time travelers hell-bent on resurrecting rock’n’roll. They strip their sound down to the essentials: wailing guitar licks, raucous vocals and crashing drums redolent of rock’s heyday in the 70s. Explicit lyrics might stave off mass appeal for Silvertide, but the rambunctious quintet out of northeastern Philadelphia strike that chord of mania and excess with rock fanatics. Tuesday, August...
...summer long, the normally rarefied issue of secret intelligence--the good and bad, the lost and found--has preoccupied Washington and perplexed the nation. Before Sept. 11, the government was unable or unready to connect the dots left by a growing army of terrorists bent on killing thousands of Americans. More recently, the government has appeared to be a little too ready to connect dots that may not have been there at all--that is, the prewar case for Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. Two years ago, the bar for proving a danger to our security...
Psychologists are trying to discover whether meditation can reprogram minds with an antisocial bent. A study at the Kings County North Rehabilitation Facility, a jail near Seattle, asked prisoners serving time for nonviolent drug-or alcohol-related crimes to sit through Vipassana meditation for 10 days, 11 hours a day, alternating sitting and walking meditations. They were chosen for their extreme rehabilitation needs and because, really, who else are you going to get to bear with 11-hour meditation sessions? Approximately 56% of the newly enlightened prisoners returned to jail within two years, compared with a 75% recidivism rate among...
...Toymaker, the brainy bad guy bent on ruling the cyberworld. He holds conferences with three advisers--a steely general, a bald scientist and a blissed-out hippie--all played by the one actor. Sylvester Stallone is simply the guest villain of Robert Rodriguez's 3-D video game, but when the veteran star is onscreen, this Spy Kids plays like Sly Kids...
...Indeed, Metro Manila's Camp Crame prison may well be the least secure high-security facility in the world. According to police director Eduardo Matillano, al-Ghozi's cell was so badly constructed that the door could be bent open by hand. A former Abu Sayyaf member working as a janitor gave al-Ghozi details of the best escape route. Before dawn, when al-Ghozi slipped out of the cell and walked out of the prison, one contingent of guards assigned to the nominally high-security block had fallen asleep while another detail had been dispatched outside the prison...