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...they all include chord progressions and something you could plausibly call a melody. But music theorists have long known that there's something else that ties these disparate musical forms together. The composers of these and virtually every other style of Western music over the past millennium tend to draw from a tiny fraction of the set of all possible chords. And their chord progressions tend to be efficient, changing as few notes, by as little as possible, from one chord to the next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Geometry of Music | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

...courts may soon be forced to address these questions. Columbia University psychiatry professor Paul Appelbaum points out that current criminal law allows government agencies to invade bodily privacy when, for example, it lets police draw blood after a suspected drunk driving accident. But not always. Americans, for example, can't currently be compelled to give a DNA sample. Nor can they be forced to submit to an MRI or have electrodes fixed to their skulls without consent or a court order, says Hank Greely, a Stanford law professor. But it's conceivable that prosecutors might become much more aggressive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Brain: Who Should Read Your Mind? | 1/19/2007 | See Source »

...ginger ale, and Chu squeezing a visionary pass through thick traffic. They also saw two complete teams, two of the best in the country, with rosters full of some medal owners, granted, but mostly comprised of promising youngsters and savvy veterans. Veterans like Johnston, who cleverly outmaneuvered Apps to draw an obstruction call that set up the 5-on-3, and then, minutes later, headily caromed the puck off the Big Green netminder into the net to even the score. Who gutted out a two-minute-long penalty kill late in the third period to preserve the draw...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: IN LEHMAN'S TERMS: ECAC Squads Potent Again | 1/16/2007 | See Source »

...think most Americans, if they had a chance to ask you a question, Madame Secretary, would say, "Why don't we talk to Iran and Syria?" Particularly I think Syria. I think they probably draw a distinction. What would you say? Because I think it's hard sometimes for people to understand why we wouldn't talk to people. And they've heard that over the last couple of months and you seem to be saying, "I don't want to talk to those people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice | 1/13/2007 | See Source »

...biggest draw, without a doubt, is its human factor, and WoW's fans have quickly shaped Azeroth into a second Earth. Players hunt for gold, and epic items, then put them up for sale on eBay, thus turning a hobby into a livelihood. They have cyber-sex, date, and get married. They hang out with old friends who may live hundreds of miles away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Confessions of a 30-Year-Old Gamer | 1/12/2007 | See Source »

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