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Soul Coughing burst into the world four years ago from the depths of New York's underground club scene. When their first album, Ruby Vroom, spread its funkified wings in 1994, thousands of hungry, pulsing teenagers gasped. Here, at last, was a thing of beauty. Here, at last, was something that made you go "Oh God, yeah, Oh God, I wanna, God, I wanna DANCE." Body-throbbing funk with a deep, heavy low-end, witty lyrics that read like poetry and presuppose (gasp) intelligent listeners, and the seductively quirky voice of lead singer Michael Doughty all melded together on Ruby...
...another oddball has joined this menagerie of improbable cosmic beasts. On Aug. 27, a burst of electromagnetic energy smashed against the earth's atmosphere, ripping apart air molecules, disrupting radio communications and knocking a couple of satellites temporarily offline. The most likely source of the power surge, scientists announced last week: a starquake on a new kind of celestial object called a magnetar...
...residents in the department of medicine are training to become primary-care physicians. This is the future of health care--a back-to-basics return to the profession's roots, when small-town doctors made house calls and were expected to deal with everything from births to a burst appendix. "Our mission is to train residents in the reality of where medicine is practiced, and that's in the outpatient setting," says Dr. Barton Haynes, chairman of the department at Duke...
...writing and the presence of ambiguity and ambivalence in his texts, Kafka presents here a work that seems to almost define his style and his voice. Full of feelings of alienation and an ostensible hatred for authority, the novel manages both to convince and mislead its readers in a burst of sadness, rebellion and surrender that is quintessentially Kafka-esque...
...satellite with London, Tokyo, Beijing, Berlin, Sydney, New York City and Rio for a 24-hour global toast. The locally renowned "low-tech magic" performers, Public Dreams Society, are coordinating with other community groups to design an interactive spectacle featuring live music and stilt dancers, whose costumes will literally burst into flames. There will be a black-tie gala, at least two fireworks displays and a laser light show. And to ensure that no one goes hungry, food will be served to the needy on the downtown east side. Throughout the day, all 23 of the city's community centers...