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Although those few extra dollars on your card will be gone forever after tomorrow, the Café will still be open throughout the summer. But when we took a peek inside this afternoon, we found half-empty shelves and even emptier serving stations. Check...
...second album this year, “Transitions,” is hardly a change—if anything, the album shows not growth but regression; Leslie’s tracks seem emptier and more unimaginative. The opening of “You’re Not My Girl,” for example, mimcs the bass line on Queen’s “Another One Bites the Dust,” making use of an almost identical rhythmic structure. The song is more than unoriginal, however; it feels sparse and cheap, a sense that arises from Leslie?...
...good news is that the top-line numbers about new houses are a little misleading. Yes, new-home activity is picking up, but that's partly because a lot of the excess inventory from the boom has been cleared out, and builders are now looking at emptier coffers than they have in a long while. Since the end of 2007, builders have been selling more houses than they've been putting up. In the first three months of 2009, there were 52,000 single-family homes started. Over the same period of time, 87,000 were sold. At the current...
...Japan, is already imperiled. And the bluefin may only be the first to disappear: as Corson notes, scientists have estimated that all of the world's ocean fish will be gone by 2050. The sushi boom may represent the triumph of benign globalization, but its net effect will be emptier seas...
...only sign that Harriet Miers was supposed to testify in front of Congress on Thursday was literally that - a sign, a paper placard bearing her name. Behind it sat an empty water cup. Behind that, an even emptier chair...