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...enveloped in a sort of ur-American nimbus that recalls every place and no place. Applebee's outlets tend to be built in suburbs that have no distinct identity on their own - no distinct "neighborhood" - which is why Applebee's slogan ("Eatin' good in the neighborhood") is so brilliant. It recalls the exact thing that's lacking...
DIED. Syd Barrett, 60, brilliant, troubled recluse who was the original leader of the seminal psychedelic rock band Pink Floyd and wrote almost all its early music; of undisclosed causes; in Cambridge, England. In 1968, a year after the release of Pink Floyd's acclaimed debut album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Barrett--who named the group after blues musicians Pink Anderson and Floyd Council--left the band after a breakdown that was caused, in part, by heavy LSD use. An icon to musicians from David Bowie to Robyn Hitchcock, Barrett, who lived in obscurity at his mother...
Since then they have performed around the world and won major competitions. They have learned near perfect English. After some bouncing around, they now live with a generous juggling aficionado in a mansion about an hour outside Los Angeles. And they have acquired a mentor, a brilliant, bombastic, shaven-headed, muscle-bound juggler named Jason Garfield...
...press during the genome race, remains appealingly weird and inspiring. He was born on an outhouse-equipped Virginia "dirt farm" - but his Yale-educated parents had earlier returned to the land as part of a rural-community experiment under Eleanor Roosevelt's patronage. Home-schooled and solitary, their brilliant fourth son pursued his inclinations through a Yale dissertation on quantum mechanics - but then swerved, first to an M.D. and next to the field of genetics, whose astonishing precision and lifesaving potential were becoming manifest...
...gamesmanship." One British newspaper was so amused by the underhanded dealings on display in the World Cup that it produced a series of league tables under such headings as diving, feigning injury, intimidating the referee and tantrums. One of the most abiding images of the tournament, along with the brilliant displays of the veteran French player Zinédine Zidane, was the sight of his teammate Thierry Henry flinging himself to the turf in response to a prod in the back and for some reason clutching the part of himself least affected - his head. A certain kind of pundit turns...