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...store boom-boxes. He has since gained wider repute for his talent as a wordsmith and songwriter. In 2002 he joined the esteemed roster of famed British label 4AD, alma mater of the Pixies, Throwing Muses, and Cocteau Twins. Tallahassee, the first release on his new label, was a concept album that concretized the “alpha-series,” a smattering of songs scattered through his albums that told the epic saga of a Florida couple on the brink of divorce. Tallahassee’s follow-up, We Shall All Be Healed, is a similar album...
...Small Arms Traffic Blues,” with its memorable comparison “Our love is like the border between Greece and Albania … there is a shortage in the blood supply, but there is no shortage of blood.” Tallahassee’s concept grows tired at times—one wonders in just how many ways this relationship can be described, but the arch to the album is successfully completed with the blithe closer “Alpha Rats’ Nest,” a hopeful plea for a happy perpetuation...
...this move is not just the death of a particular size, it is the death of an era. It’s unlikely that McDonald’s will retreat to Super Size in its original concept, and Dartboard will have to learn to sadly recite the simple word “large” after placing her orders. McDonald’s plans on “phasing” Super Size out—vanishing completely by December—in order to wean addicts like Dartboard gradually off, most likely to prevent vast withdrawal symptoms. Perhaps...
...concept of quantum teleportation, first postulated in 1993 by IBM researcher Charles Bennet, has been likened to voodoo. But it is a reality, due in large part to the work of Nicolas Gisin, 52, and his 20 or so graduate students and research assistants at the University of Geneva's Group of Applied Physics. In the basement of the university's old medical-school building, Gisin commands a series of laboratories crisscrossed with laser beams and crowded with the gizmos that make teleportation possible: photon counters, interferometers and plain old mirrors that bounce the lasers around. Last year Gisin...
...score tickets to take his girlfriend to The Lion King. Frustration led to innovation after Baker figured out the math of the secondary market and turned it into a business. StubHub moved an estimated $60 million worth of tickets in 2003 and also turned its first profit. "StubHub's concept centralizes a big, fragmented market," says David Kirsch, a University of Maryland business professor who studies both the suckers and the survivors of the dotcom era. "It's a company I'd take...