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...conventional method. Now he can reproduce the sound of a 50-piece orchestra, hitting as many notes as his 10 fingers can reach together and then filling in the rest with arpeggios and scales. He can shift to a different key midway through a tune, without stopping. He can dip into his mental library of thousands of tunes and come up with surprising hybrids - Mozart in the style of Joplin; Culture Club's Karma Chameleon as Chopin might have played it; Handel's Water Music with a ragtime twist. "Very few musicians can do what he does," says Roger Huckle...
...attempts suicide. Without warning, “Sing Now” brings a serious moral theme into focus—marriage and life aren’t perfect, so all you Gen-Xers out there need to appreciate your thirties while you can still skinny-dip. Someday you really will be old. The problem is, no matter where the script turns, the plot is frivolous. It’s a funny movie, but it’s uncomfortably lodged between the patently ridiculous and the irritatingly straight-faced. “Sing Now” carries a strong summer-camp...
...case in point: I take the subway to and from work, and shortly before I get home, my train emerges from underground, back into the world of sunlight and cell-phone reception. As it does, everybody on the train performs the same gesture in unison. We dip into our bags, briefcases, purses and pockets for whatever mobile digital device we carry. This is the behavior not of enlightened digital consumers but of addicts caught in an epidemic...
Fewer teens take drugs now than a decade ago. In 1995, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, 19% of surveyed schoolkids said they had used an illegal drug in the past month; in 2005, 16% did. That's a small dip, but kids' smoking tumbled 40% during the same period. And teens' use of alcohol is also down, despite stories you may have seen about parents' letting their high schoolers drink. Nearly 40% of teens reported drinking in the past month in 1995; less than a third did in 2005. Plus, the teen pregnancy rate is the lowest...
...offers companies seeking capital a chance to dip into London's deep investor pool under lighter regulations than those on competing markets. That's got U.S. rivals in a spin. As overseas firms bypass New York to trade on AIM - which now lists more than 300 foreign companies, one-fifth of them from the U.S. - it has faced accusations of lax standards. In January, NYSE CEO John Thain claimed AIM "did not have any standards at all, and anyone could list." A month later, Roel Campos, a commissioner at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the stock-market regulator, branded...