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Noise is just the beginning of the problems. The surreal environment the turbines create includes shadows, flicker, flashing FAA lights, cell and TV interruption, stray voltage, water contamination—the list goes on. It truly does! And the Harvard purchase and others like it will ensure that rural communities all around the country continue to experience the same fate...
...North Korean family is getting ready for dinner in their bright, spacious Pyongyang apartment when the lights flicker out. With an air of resignation?blackouts are a daily ritual, even in the nation's showcase capital?they light candles to eat by, and the mother grumbles, "Bloody Americans, it's all their fault." The scene, at once mundane and extraordinary, is typical of A State of Mind, a new British documentary that offers an intimate look at the world's most shuttered society. As they chronicle the lives of two young gymnasts training to participate in the Mass Games...
...among the majority of Americans who live in blue zones like New York and California or red ones like Texas and Mississippi, you probably have heard little more from the campaigns than the distant rumble of artillery--the flicker of a campaign ad as you flip from TLC to the Golf Channel, a quick glimpse of a candidate who is in the area to raise some money. But if you live in Ohio or Wisconsin or Florida or Pennsylvania, you are getting more attention from the presidential campaigns than you would expect in a hotly contested school-board race...
...candidate not to take out the loan. Even with the money, the supporter argued, Kerry's prospects in Iowa were dim. But without it, Kerry pushed back, there was no chance that he could overtake Dean. "You see," Kerry told me last week, with killer cool and without a flicker of irony, "I always believed I was going to win, so there really wasn't much choice...
...Elegantly draped in flowing dresses and sporting flight-attendant smiles that never flicker, the 12 women breeze their way through easy-listening instrumental stylings of everything from Japanese pop songs to Chinese folk favorites and American jazz standards. The group's composer and arranger, Liang Jianfeng, says their sound "combines the best elements of Chinese and Western music." In practice, that means retaining just enough Chinese flavor to create an exotic sheen without alienating listeners unaccustomed to the moan of the erhu (a two-stringed fiddle) or the plink of the pipa. The finished product is about as Chinese...