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...Parental Advisory label. Clearly the RIAA needs to catch up on their slang.) The Sisters’ lyrics are as playful and unconventional as ever. That’s not to say the album is without missteps. “Paul McCartney,” for example, is a dismal low point. The song tries too hard to be this album’s “Filthy/Gorgeous,” with the band employing a beat similar to the previous hit’s and even giving vocalist Ana Matronic dialogue to moan out, just like last time...

Author: By Luis Urbina, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: CD Review: Scissor Sisters, "Ta-Dah" | 10/5/2006 | See Source »

...there is one thing that people on both sides of the cloning debate agree upon, it's that cloning is an incredibly inefficient process. When it comes to cloning animals, like Dolly and Snuppy, the process produces a healthy animal only a dismal 1% to 5% of the time. This hit-or-miss dilemma wouldn't matter much if producing identical animals were its only application, but cloning is also the foundation for one of the more promising ways that stem cells might be used to treat human disease with a patient's own cells. At this rate, even cloning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Older Cells Solve Cloning's Problems? | 10/1/2006 | See Source »

...Harvard men’s soccer team entered the contest against Yale on Saturday at Ohiri Field on a sour note—coming off of a four-game stretch over which it went a dismal 1-3. But the Crimson left the field with the taste of victory once again...

Author: By Julia R. Senior, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Akpan Continues Rookie Run, Helps Harvard to Upset | 10/1/2006 | See Source »

...propaganda and conspiracy theories that blame others for your country's shortcomings. And everywhere you turn, you hear extremists who tell you that you can escape your misery and regain your dignity through violence and terror and martyrdom. For many across the broader Middle East, this is the dismal choice presented every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Text of the President's Speech | 9/19/2006 | See Source »

...experience of telling a wife who is on the line and looking for her husband, "He says he's not here." Graham set his sights on the military early, joining the ROTC in college, and he would have been a pilot were it not for a bad ear and dismal math scores. He had to adjust his plans again when his parents died within two years of each other while he was still in college, leaving him with a 13-year-old sister to provide for. After graduating from law school, he formally adopted her, mostly so that she would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Republican Leading the Rebellion Against Bush | 9/17/2006 | See Source »

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