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...bit of perspective, think back on 1997, when a financial crisis began in Thailand and rapidly swept through first Asia and then emerging markets around the world. It brought currency collapses, massive debt defaults and sharp recessions in its wake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bright Side of Friday's Dow Drop | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

...that you could really tell in the United States. Sure, there was a bit of a credit-market scare in the latter half of 1998. But on balance, the impact on the U.S. economy was positive - as the emerging market troubles sent commodity prices down and capital flowed to the relative safety of Wall Street. Real GDP grew 4.2% that year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bright Side of Friday's Dow Drop | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

...familiar scream-singing with more melodic, beautiful phrases, which allow him to display an almost soulful, slightly scratchy voice. “Rock ’N’ Roll Dream” encapsulates AC/DC’s new balance of balls out rock with something a bit softer. The relatively mellow verses are initially filled only by quiet and unobtrusive drums, a haunting solo guitar line, and Johnson’s voice. Quick crescendos then lift the track up to a high-energy chorus, “I could be in a rock...

Author: By Anna E. Sakellariadis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: AC/DC | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

...bit more foraging by one of his graduate students unearthed a tiny bottle of gas that Mazur himself had used when he was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard. Had the graduate student known that this gas was particularly stable—unlikely to react with other chemicals—he might not have used...

Author: By Alissa M D'gama, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: By Accident, Harvard Scientists Create Black Silicon | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

...still trying to find the right way to get out whatever the fuck is inside his head. But for anyone who’s been following the Kevin Barnes genre-bending, gender-bending bender, “Skeletal Lamping” will feel just about right, if a little bit disappointing. The follow up to last year’s critically acclaimed “Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?” sees the reintroduction of alter-ego Georgie Fruit (see: Aladdin Sane), but sheds some of that album’s tight electronic instrumentals and most...

Author: By Ross S. Weinstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Of Montreal | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

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