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...Sheffield: "People don't refer to it as 'my Metro.'" As a basic, quick news service, it's only "like switching on the radio news on the hour," Cole says. Of course, the dumbing-down debate has been around as long as newspapers themselves. "Free papers reach a broad cross section of the population," points out Ingela Wadbring, researcher at the University of Gothenburg's Institute of Journalism and Mass Communication in Sweden. "They are read by young people, immigrants, the unemployed and people with low income. This is very positive." And free news doesn't necessarily mean second-hand...
...used to feel different out there on the road. Until just recently I measured my progress on cross-country driving trips by the rise and fall of radio signals that strengthened as I approached a town and fuzzed away as I entered the countryside. The airwaves were jumpy, uncertain and alive, a patchwork of distinctive accents and peculiar regional interests. I knew I was getting close to Texas from the twang of steel guitars. I realized I might reach Omaha by suppertime when I started hearing crop reports. Often, when I was traveling through North Dakota, the only voices...
West has refused to resign, but he is taking what city spokeswoman Marlene Feist calls "a vacation ... to sort this situation out." So far, few Republican leaders have demanded he step down. One exception is Shaun Cross, a Spokane conservative who ran for Congress last year. The mayor, he says, "has created a tsunami of hypocrisy." Feist says Spokane's response has been mixed. Some people have called in sounding supportive, some upset. Still others say West is in their prayers. --Reported by Sandeep Kaushik/Spokane
...colors of that fabulous world," she says, "but a different twist - looking at it sideways." For her next SSO work in 2006, Lim hopes to reconfigure the orchestra's sound with a didgeridoo. "That has been one of my projects as a composer," she says, "to have that cross-fertilization between different cultures of music...
...Born of Chinese parents in Perth before growing up in Brunei and, later, Melbourne, Lim is cross-fertilization in action. Her music embodies the process. The Alchemical Wedding, which elision premiered at the Melbourne Festival in 1996, shifts almost imperceptibly between Western and Eastern sounds, from contrabassoon to erhu (as bridegroom and bride), in a sliding scale of culture. With Inguz (1996), named after a Viking rune symbolizing fertility, the clarinet threatens to soar at any moment into Gershwin-like rhapsody, but gives birth to something else - music as anthropology. For her 2000 opera Moon Spirit Feasting, the composer spent...