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...touring with him. After she met film-score composer Gregory, they released their 2000 debut Felt Mountain, an enchanting, cinematic progression from the trip-hop groove. The 2003 follow-up Black Cherry added a dose of glam and disco; the single Strict Machine became a synthesized surefire floor filler, as well as the theme to a Game Boy advertisement. Supernature is even more varied. An epic in synthesizer sounds, it reveals hints of '60s movie themes, chunks of '70s Eno-era Roxy Music, Donna Summer disco, '90s trip-hop - all with a knowing 21st century pop take. Like the magpie...
...series of mysteries resolved in an hour. They were often brilliant, but for many, they simply killed time between the "mythology" episodes, which laid out the series' tantalizing story line about a government-alien conspiracy. Now 20th Century Fox has had the good sense to strip out the filler and serve up the mythology with no chaser. These two themed collections unspool ongoing plot threads from Seasons 1 through 5. If you don't know what "black oil"--a nefarious goo that may be an alien life form--is, you will have an engrossing time learning...
STEPHEN ROBINSON, astronaut who, in a stunningly simple spacewalk repair job, used his fingers to pluck two pieces of cloth filler dangling from the space shuttle; NASA feared the loose bits would compromise the shuttle's heat shields upon re-entry...
...WILL THE FILLER BE TRIMMED? Robinson will secure his feet to the end of the shuttle?s manipulator arm and be lowered under the nose of the ship-a place where spacewalking astronauts have never ventured. His first attempted fix will be a decidedly low-tech one: He?ll try to pluck the fabric free. If that doesn?t work, he?ll use a blade-a portion of which has been taped over to prevent it from nicking the ship. If that fails, he?ll try a small...
...THIS THE FIRST TIME GAP FILLER HAS CAUSED SUCH A PROBLEM? No. Shuttles have flown more than 100 times and the filler has always been a part of them. In 1995, the shuttle Columbia returned with a protruding piece. On other shuttles, it?s likely some filler worked free but burned away during reentry. The fact that the underside of Discovery was photographed so carefully on this mission to look for chipped tiles is the only reason the filler problem turned up this time...