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...good one, driven on by the manic playing of Matt Tong, rock's best new drummer in years. Bruce Springsteen Devils & Dust The title track from the Boss's new album starts with a gentle acoustic strum, gains steam on the backs of evocative nouns (blood, stone, bone) and peaks with a harmonica solo. It's nothing new, which is to say, it's very good. Martha Wainwright Bloody Mother f******* A****** The dry, ecstatic voice is a legacy of papa Loudon and mama Kate McGarrigle, but the talent for profanity is all her own. This roar of a song...
What excites scientists about the unspecialized stem cells is their potential to develop into any type of tissue, from bone and muscle to skin and blood and nerve. Although there are several kinds of stem cells--including ones found in adult bone marrow and umbilical-cord blood--the most versatile, researchers say, are the ones that come from embryos, because they haven't yet developed enough to specialize at all. Those are the ones that scientists believe hold the greatest potential for treatment of a wide range of diseases, as well as for repairing damaged nerves and organs...
...weekend doubleheaders. Instead, we sharpen our bookmaking skills by setting the line on first pitch attendance. You’re usually safe taking the “under,” no matter how low the mark is placed. Long, slow afternoons also offer plenty of chances to bone up on obscure baseball knowledge, such as the identity of the lesser-known member of Cincinnati’s “Nasty Boys” bullpen trio of 1990 that stumped most of the team for hours (Norm Charlton, for those scoring from your dorm room...
...DIED. PERCY HEATH, 81, nimble, forceful jazz bassist and the last surviving charter member of the esteemed Modern Jazz Quartet, whose fine arrangements and restrained sounds were sometimes called cool jazz; of bone cancer, in Southampton, N.Y. An accompanist to such greats as Miles Davis, Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk, he provided the low-key backbone of the innovative Modern Jazz Quartet from 1952 until the ensemble finally dissolved...
...Disputed Remains "Bones of Contention" [April 4] reported that the North Korean government returned to Japan the cremated ashes and bone fragments of Megumi Yokota, a Japanese girl who was kidnapped by the North Koreans in the 1970s and later committed suicide. After running DNA tests, Japanese officials said the remains were not Yokota's, and they blocked North Korean rice shipments in protest. But now they have announced that the remains might be Yokata's. I am deeply shocked that I have heard nothing of that in the Japanese media. From the very beginning, Japan has handled the case...