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...already begun to adopt the posture of his first conducting teacher, José Antonio Abreu, who at 68 is almost hunchbacked from years of pouring himself forward into the orchestra. During delicate passages for the winds, Dudamel reaches his hands into the orchestra as if picking low-hanging fruit; in more violent ones, he attempts to move whole walls of sound with his outstretched arms. Talk to other conductors about Dudamel's qualities and they speak of electricity, vibrancy and magic, and of a uniquely expressive stick technique. But at the Edinburgh rehearsal, it's clear that sheer persistence...
...That's an increasingly common wish in China, where after years of high economic growth and relatively stable consumer prices, inflation is back on the table - and a bitter fruit it is. China's Consumer Price Index showed a 5.6% year-over-year increase in July, the sharpest rise in more than a decade. Food prices soared 15.4%, with meat and poultry alone rising 45% due to shortages caused by outbreaks of livestock disease as well as severe flooding in agricultural areas. But it's not just food prices that are taxing consumers. The costs of rents and mortgages were...
...only one. "I asked my friend Alyssa for some advice on romance, and she said that she sticks to the classics," says Genna Gallegos, of Golden, Colo. "She's a huge fan of Audrey Hepburn films." Alyssa and Genna are 17 years old. When teenagers, the sweetest fruit on capitalism's vine, have to use a half-century-old product because they can't find a more recent model that works for them, there is something seriously wrong with an industry...
...remains a formidable threat; a senior U.S. military official in Baghdad called it the organization most likely to push Iraq's vicious sectarian conflict into a full-blown civil war. But American efforts to turn tribal leaders and armed Sunni groups against the jihadists in their midst have borne fruit in the security realm this year, although such groups remain harshly critical of the Maliki government. That government has made no discernible progress bringing Shi'ite militia groups under control, and is now contending with multiple defections and the possibility of being brought down by a no-confidence vote...
...time lovers of the Boqueria view such change as a betrayal of a sacred tradition. Sniffs Guy Bonrepos, who has owned a French cheese shop at the market for 20 years, "A lot of the old produce stalls have been bought and changed for the tourists. They take rotting fruit, cut off the bad parts, and wrap the rest in plastic. Can you imagine? Plastic...