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...tantalizing as these bits of research are, they barely begin to address the mysteries of music and the brain, including the deepest question of all: Why do we appreciate music? Did our musical ancestors have an evolutionary edge over their tin-eared fellows? Or is music, as M.I.T. neuroscientist Steven Pinker asserts, just "auditory cheesecake," with no biological value? Given music's central role in most of our lives, it's time that scientists found the answers...
...will be exempt, from the world's oldest in Damascus to its newest in Palestine, from dusty Riyadh to scenic Rabat, from war-weary Beirut and Baghdad to sleepy Muscat and Manama, from landlocked Amman to seafront Algiers. Oh, and Jerusalem too. Syria, Libya and Iraq will witness the deepest transformations for the simple reason that their eccentric ideologies are the most bankrupt--and the most out of synch with their people. Their institutions are corrupt. And their economies are moribund...
Many of the countries in the deepest demographic trouble have imposed aggressive family-planning programs, only to see them go badly--even criminally--awry. In the 1970s, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi tried to reduce the national birthrate by offering men cash and transistor radios if they would undergo vasectomies. In the communities in which those sweeteners failed, the government resorted to coercion, putting millions of males--from teenage boys to elderly men--on the operating table. Amid the popular backlash that followed, Gandhi's government was turned out of office, and the public rejected family planning...
...Thoke and senior Crystal Springer started off a Crimson rally in the bottom half of the fourth with sharp, back-to-back singles. Two batters later, freshman leadoff hitter Tiffany Whitton came up with the bases loaded and smacked the ball off the upper center field wall in the deepest part of the park...
...expect that a movie with Aaliyah and DMX in starring roles (yes, they "act" in it) would have a good soundtrack, even if the movie is an utterly torturous hour and a half of sheer mediocrity. After all, the movie isn't likely to have sensitive portrayals of the deepest recesses of the human soul (no Walkens or De Niros here), but you might expect something on the soundtrack along the lines of "Are You the Somebody" or "Where My Dogs...