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...first heard the band’s 1999 breakthrough, “Agaetis Byrjun,” a few months after 9/11, and it was a rare moment of utter entrancement. None of the words were in English, but the 10-minute epics of eerie falsetto and guitars-played-like-cellos brought me some kind of orgasmic peace. Since then, whenever life ceases to make sense, I seek out the Icelandic quintet and turn to the last three tracks on “Agaetis Byrjun” for solace...
After a solid victory of 4 and 3 in Tuesday’s competition against Rose, Friend’s breakthrough into the round of 16 was complete. She fell by a tight 2 and 1 margin to Reggie Parker of Hobe South...
Americans have plenty of opinions about teenage sexuality. What they don't have are many hard facts. Alfred Kinsey's celebrated sex surveys in the 1940s and '50s were breakthrough studies, but they were methodologically flawed and didn't delve into the issue of teenage sex. And while a major sex study out of the University of Chicago in 1994 did include some teens in its sample, none were younger than...
...statement, signed in Beijing by diplomats from the U.S., North Korea, China Russia, Japan and South Korea, represented the first breakthrough since North Korea withdrew from international agreements in 2002 and announced its intention to build nuclear weapons. Since then, Pyongyang has declared itself a nuclear power and is believed to possess as many as seven atom bombs...
...Harvard team has begun to decipher Inca knotted strings, a breakthrough that would allow them to study the Inca Empire through its own records, rather than through artifacts or Spanish chronicles...