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Square residents called drumming "a worm on the brain" and complained about its effects on mental health. But street musicians complained of cultural elitism, bias and censorship, and warned that when percussion is suppressed, the Square's eclectic atmosphere will dampen...
Square residents called drumming "a worm on the brain" and complained about its effects on mental health. But street musicians complained of cultural elitism, bias and censorship, and warned that when percussion is suppressed, the Square's eclectic atmosphere will dampen...
Maybe engineers and designers should get Olympic medals. In the pole vault, heights jumped 30% with the switch from bamboo to fiber-glass and carbon- composite poles. Tracks have been resurfaced to give runners more bounce and speed, and pools have been designed to dampen wave action that buffets swimmers. Some athletes fear their events could become contests of equipment and facilities, but as any coach would admit, it still takes a great swimmer to bring out the best in a great pool...
With domestic inflation running at more than 4% annually, Germany's Bundesbank sought to dampen it by raising the benchmark discount rate for lending to banks a hefty .75%, to 8.75%, the highest level since 1931. But to spur world economic recovery, the board at the same time left unchanged, at 9.75%, the so-called Lombard rate, which governs charges for overnight loans among banks in Germany and has a wider international impact than the discount rate...
...Both sides hated and vilified him for years, he says, but offered no solutions. He calls on those who can solve Russia's problems to speak up and those who cannot to keep quiet. What passes for decisive leadership today, he says -- naming no names -- has done nothing to dampen continuing outbreaks of nationalist upheaval and ethnic bloodletting...