Word: bits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...greatest hits album tell the story of two cowboys on the trail, who meet up with a woman who not only shoots better than they do, she knows how to get to the next town when her companions don't. But her capability and brains don't detract one bit from her red-haired beauty...
...Mental Health. Even a simple trait like acidity is controlled not by a single gene but by as many as 30 that operate in concert. In the same way, he speculates, many genes are involved in setting up temperamental traits and psychological vulnerabilities; each gene contributes just a little bit to the overall effect...
...dozen or so centuries before the birth of Christ, the lands surrounding the Mediterranean were bursting with civilization. Pharaohs reigned over Egypt to the south, the empires of Mesopotamia flourished to the east, and the Greeks dominated the Aegean to the north. But just a bit farther north still, another, more enigmatic people ruled the Balkans, where Bulgaria, Serbia, Romania, Hungary and Ukraine now lie. Known as the Thracians, they left no temples, no great monuments, no massive tombs. They didn't even have a written language; the only accounts of their society--a confederation of tribes that never achieved...
...such places as Vietnam and Central America. Perhaps too easily. "Sold my soul and nothing happened" was how he chose to describe the trouble he was having installing Microsoft's Internet Explorer to a lawyer friend at Microsoft archenemy Netscape. The line was from a Jill Sobule song, a bit of pop-music whimsy from an opera fan who often wears stereo headphones while he works. It was a joke...
...number of songs stand out. One track, Sunday, has a soothing, rambling melody. Another, Female Mechanic Now On Duty, with its screeching, spiraling guitars and spoken-sung vocals, is a commentary on rock journalism. "It's a little bit of an answer song," says Gordon. "The media, which are predominantly made up of men, are always writing what they think 'women in rock' is, and it always winds up being some sexually seductive object." The band is at its best on the nine-minute song Wildflower Soul. It's a ballad that moves smartly from tangles of arty noise...