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...You’d have to live in a cave out in the woods to separate yourself from what military-driven technological innovation has provided this country,” Parker says. “If you take a look at the cutting edge of science in any particular field, you’ll find DOD-sponsored research projects there...
...interview with the weekly Le Point Thursday, Trichet admitted being "worried by the excessive exchange rate movements". But he reiterated his inflation-fighting position that "we'll take the necessary decisions to insure price stability in the medium-term [which] is what our mandate is" - and not cave into the interventionist calls from Europe's politicians...
...journalists covering prerevolutionary China can claim to be familiar with communist rebel life in the trenches. But veteran AP reporter and China watcher John Roderick was there. For months, he shared the cave Mao Zedong and other rebels used as headquarters after the Japanese flattened the city of Yan'an, the end point of the communists' Long March. Roderick went on to cover the country from its ensuing civil war through the economic reforms of the 1980s, and in 1979 reopened the AP bureau in Beijing. "Keep learning," he advised colleagues. "If you ever think you understand China completely...
...binary goliath—2003’s “Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus”—and their latest installment—“Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!”—have been a period of transition for Aussie frontman Nick Cave. In the interim, Cave composed two soundtracks alongside perpetual collaborator and Bad Seed Warren Ellis, and his side project, Grinderman, recorded their eponymous debut in 2007. An album of visceral, uncouth guitar-thunder, “Grinderman” eschewed the theatrical balladry of typical Seeds fare, garnering critical praise...
...like fragmented prompts for the reader to consider rather than a set of answers neatly handed to her on a platter. Millhauser’s characters wade through his stories thirsting to perceive a world beyond the limitations of their senses and their environment, like Plato’s cave dwellers striving to conceptualize an unseen world. The key to this—or, rather, the key to one of the many consecutive locked doors leading to this—seems to be that of painstaking observation: unlocking the imagination lies in seeing, hearing, and feeling the world...