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Bright Eyes, along with Cursive, the Faint and other Saddle Creek Records bands represent the thriving indie pop scene in Omaha, which still has ties to Mendenhall and the Prom. In fact, all three of the other bands that played the Cambridge show—Mayday, The Good Life and headliners Rilo Kiley—are on Saddle Creek...
...Made from water drawn from 460 ft. below the Russian ground, Zyr is distilled five times with winter wheat and rye. This creates a velvety-smooth feel in the mouth, a floral scent with a faint vanilla taste and a sipping vodka that is at its best drunk neat or on the rocks. --By Lisa McLaughlin
WMAP learned this and more by scrutinizing the faint whisper of microwaves left over from the Big Bang. Hidden in that radiation are patterns of warmer and cooler spots, marking places where matter was a little more or less dense than average--spots that would eventually evolve into the clusters of galaxies and empty spaces that we see today. These patterns were first detected in crude form by the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite in 1992, but without enough detail for much to be said about them...
...same sort of strategy that our team took in India," says Davis. And the payoff is potentially huge, given that the mainland's TV ad market was a hefty $2.4 billion last year. Yet the chances of China contributing to Star Group's bottom line any time soon seem faint. That's because China's authoritarian government, fearing that foreign-produced entertainment will usurp domestic competitors and that racy shows will corrupt the citizenry, severely limits the distribution of Western programming...
...hundreds of thousands of jubilant Kenyans poured into Nairobi's Uhuru Park for the inauguration of their new President on Dec. 30, joy threatened to turn to chaos. Frustrated at the three-hour wait for Mwai Kibaki, the crowd crushed forward, causing dozens of people to faint from suffocation. When outgoing President Daniel arap Moi stood, Kenyans angry at his 24 years of corrupt and autocratic misrule pelted the dais with mud and drowned out his speech with chants of "All is possible without Moi" and, simply, "Go Away." Street urchins took advantage of the confusion to snatch wallets, cell...