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...such a deconstruction would not only be an exhibition of the worst kind of musical machismo; it would suggest that the band’s songs are more pastiche than product.They are not. Inspirations aside, theirs is a group of fully formed, self-sustaining songs that ultimately do not depend on the work of their forefathers to be realized. While its clear that they are devoted fans of pop music, they have more intensely studied the history of “The Perfect Three-Minute Pop Song.” They are proud scholars of this history but are determined...
...failure of the federal government to act quickly enough to arrest the decline in the economy before the end of this year now appears to depend not so much on whether the funds are approved as the extent to which Congress and some parts of the Administration can put them into law and manage them as ongoing programs...
...Kindle 2 might help book publishers, it continues to frustrate periodical publishers. Aside from different logos, all newspapers and magazines look the same on a Kindle since it cannot render different fonts. And, because it can't yet handle color, it's a bleak format for magazines, which heavily depend on color photographs, illustrations and artful packaging...
...answer may partly depend on Suleman. She has yet to divulge who helped her get pregnant with the octuplets. But she has hired a p.r. firm and is rumored to be weighing seven-figure offers for her first televised interview. Her publicist, Joann Killeen, told reporters, "As soon as she's able, she will tell her story, and it's an amazing story." Doctors, moms and ethicists are all ears...
Elementary school classrooms are filled with impressionable young minds learning how to add, multiply, and divide; but few of these students will ever understand the logic and the theory behind their calculations. The works of Plato, Euclid, and Newton, upon which all of modern science and commerce depend, are as much philosophical statements about the structure of the universe as they are mathematical treatises. In “Is God a Mathematician?” Mario Livio attempts to impress upon the reader this fundamental connection between math and philosophy while presenting a “greatest hits?...