Word: ets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mothers and try to scam some beer. Others pretend to dance to the woompwoomp, and laugh. Yuppies sup, and eye each another. More waiting, more techno. Woompwoomp. Thickening, moist air. Finally: stringy guy with no body fat--like, none at all--and long hair walks out. Rockers, punks, yuppies, et cetera ecstatic. And Iggy Pop begins to play. Acoustic. What--as they say--the hell...
...suspicious. How can kids feel increasingly safe in a country where school shootings have become almost as routine as fire drills? There doesn?t seem to be any one reason for teenagers? relative calm; rather, it's a combination of practical and psychological factors. In the wake of Columbine et al, schools have bulked up security ? in part to quell students? fears of violence, but also to calm parental nerves. So maybe it?s not such a surprise that many students feel safe: Surveillance cameras, metal detectors and daily pat-downs do tend to create a high-security atmosphere...
...mission. She's also made it clear that she's not keen on having every detail of her plight made public - specifics of her condition have been withheld at her request. But that hasn't stopped her saga from being documented and updated almost hourly on CNN, MSNBC et al since it first broke in June. There has been a distinct lack of specifics in the reporting: At this point, it?s not known for certain whether Nielsen actually has cancer, although the urgency surrounding the rescue mission has led some to expect the worst...
...Et tu, Scot...
...Sure, sneer at R.E.M. and their earnestness and politics and wussiness, but no arguments about this: the boys know how to make good music. Unlike other popular bands of the past and present (ahem, Aerosmith, Rolling Stones, Cranberries et al.), every one of R.E.M.'s albums has some redeeming quality. No synthpop or electronica experiments to be found! Even better, all of their earliest albums have withstood the test of time and sound fresh and new today...