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...Kiss Me, Baby, a classic Beach Boys tune. Somewhere in the middle of a complex arrangement featuring nine vocalists, he has detected someone singing flat. He asks to run through the song again and then abruptly calls a halt after maybe half a bar. He has identified the culprit, and quickly reworks the harmony to his satisfaction. This is the same in-command Brian you can hear at work on the Pet Sounds outtakes--pop's boy genius...
...them are driving to their deaths. While fatalities for most drivers have dropped in the past two decades, traffic deaths of newly licensed 16-year-olds surged about 50% between 1975 and 1996. Even more troubling than the rising body count are the reasons behind it. Alcohol, the main culprit in teen accidents in the '80s, is now much less of a problem, thanks to a major educational blitz. Instead, safety specialists blame the sort of naive errors that killed Wells and her friends. Citing cutbacks in driver education by schools, experts contend that young motorists simply have inadequate skills...
...does one prove that one drug or the other was the culprit? This is not the place to delve into that knotty problem. I will simply say that there are only two approaches--and one may be unethical. That one is to stop the drug, look for improvement, then start the drug again to see if the badness returns. That, of course, requires the effect to be reversible (it often...
Strokes afflict 600,000 Americans each year. In 80% of cases the culprit is some kind of clot that obstructs the flow of blood through an artery. But for a variety of reasons, blood-starved brain cells don't die right away. If the offending clot is broken up quickly enough, normal blood flow is restored and the brain is spared...
...give "friendly advice" to Saddam -- backed by the U.S. military. That kind of cooperation has averted strikes in the past. While the French are espousing dissatisfaction with U.S. bombings, says Sancton:"They're not going to make a big deal of it, since they agree Saddam is the culprit...