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Chinese Democracy finally hits stores, fulfilling the end-times prophecy "A long dormant Rose shall reach full bloom...
...France's counter-terrorism organizations may not have seen the last of belligerent behavior by extreme leftist groups that have largely been dormant since Action Directe was smashed in 1987. "The economic and financial crisis the world is now experiencing is a dream come true to the extreme-left, especially with mainstream leftist political parties unable to mount any real opposition to ruling conservatives," Jacquard notes. "That brings the possibility of social unrest radical leftists may seek to exploit - or even provoke through violence of their...
...like Sun City Girls and Six Organs of Admittance.But these two seemingly divergent forces—Kottke the acoustic virtuoso, Fahey the ambient experimenter—came together with Peter Lang to record an eponymous 1974 LP. Because of Takoma’s relatively limited financial clout and semi-dormant status in the wake of Fahey’s death, this album remains nearly impossible to find, but what thin documentation exists indicates that it’s one (if only one) highlight of both careers. In a way, the album represents the meeting of two tremendously important careers, whose...
...assembly to rewrite the current constitution within 120 days. The government's original announcement in April that it would change the charter, drafted by a military-appointed assembly and approved in a national referendum in 2007, brought the PAD back out on to the streets after it had been dormant for a year-and-a-half. Thaksin's opponents are worried the government is trying to rewrite the constitution in ways that will invalidate this verdict and the other corruption charges against him, as well as electoral fraud charges against the ruling People Power Party. "With this guilty verdict...
Ebright hopes myxopyronin will be especially useful in the battle against drug-resistant tuberculosis, a disease for which clinicians have never had a perfect therapy. The success of TB treatment depends on the destruction of active and dormant bacteria to prevent relapse - something that few existing antibiotics have been able to do. One way to kill a dormant cell is to target biochemical processes that continue even in latency - there aren't many of those. But myxopyronin works by interfering with the enzyme RNA polymerase, which controls gene transcription in cells and is necessary for cell survival, dormant...