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...which he co-stars with Gwyneth Paltrow; and the first American release from Russell Crowe's classic-rock band 30 Odd Foot of Grunts, "Bastard Life or Clarity" (Artemis). Of these three CDs, one might hold out the highest hopes for Thornton's. According to his official bio, he has been playing in bands as a drummer, guitarist and a singer since he was nine years old, more than twenty-five years before his screen debut. Black, by contrast, reportedly learned to play guitar from the other member of Tenacious D, Kyle Gass, when the duo formed...
...Azerrad, who wrote the 1994 Nirvana bio "Come As You Are," well knows how indispensable Kurt Cobain's band was in alt-rock's rise to prominence, but "Our Band Could Be Your Life" is a lesson in the impossibility of reducing the revolution to an individual (or a trio). Its story goes like this: in the early `80s, a bunch of kids in unknown punk bands, like L.A.'s Black Flag, figured out that "calling up a pressing plant and getting their own record manufactured wasn't the mysterious, exclusive privilege of the giant record companies on the coasts...
...North Campus,” which is where they take most classes, while science majors are “South Campus” students. And to complicate matters further, there are about five hundred thousand majors; no one is ever just majoring in “bio,” but instead are “psychobiology” or “biotechnical sciences” or “physiological biology.” Such a huge school ensures ample resources (and often a necessity) for creating so many divisions among students. While this gives students a wealth...
...More public investment in GM technology, both by national governments and by international research groups, would certainly help. That way each nation can can adapt and make use of global research if it chooses. Every country that wants to use GM technology also needs to establish a strong bio-safety system to ensure that any risks that these new crops might bring can be handled safely. And part of having an effective bio-safety system means setting up consultations with farmers and consumers so that informed and open debates can be held and communities can make their own choices...
...lure to a classmate, Jenny (Gretchen Mol, the Vanity Fair cover girl who was in two Woody Allen films), and a threat to Jenny's fiancé Phillip (Frederick Weller, who played Brian Wilson in a recent Beach Boys bio-pic). Where attraction looms, in a LaBute play, pain must follow. It's his theme: that people, people like us, hurt people. He has the craft to ensure they do so instructively and entertainingly. The play wouldn't work as seductively as it does-the set-up, the darkening, the climactic switcheroo-without four beguiling actors who make their characters...