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...that represent significant growth on the part of Spears—or at least the album’s most prolific producer, Timbaland protégé Danja. The album is acutely aware of Britney’s recent absence from the pop music scene and the tracks that funnel Spears’ frustration and anger are the strongest. In “Piece Of Me,” Spears laments her overexposure since she broke into the music scene at the age of 17. Instead of asking for sympathy, Spears challenges her critics if they really...
...change is a threat to peace, for if we damage our planet, wars could very well be waged in the future over land that is still habitable. The Nobel Committee’s decision has elevated the issues to a previously undreamt of degree of prestige and will hopefully funnel both money and brainpower toward future research on ways to mitigate and even reverse the current climatic trajectory. Gore and the IPCC have raised awareness about climate change, but progress to reduce or reverse climate change remains slow and unsteady. Momentous shifts in the national and global psyches will...
...debate is centered on the practice of gavage, in which corn is force-fed to farm-raised ducks through a funnel down their throats. Some argue that gavage is inhumane, while others counter that the physiology of a duck is not the same as a human. "It seems terrible if you don't know that a duck's esophagus is lined with a very thick cuticle, if you don't realize that baby ducks are fed by their mother pushing her beak down the baby's throat," says Ariane Daguin, owner of D'Artagnan, the largest foie gras purveyor...
...Ferris Wheels and Funnel Cake...
...worst-case scenario is an Iraq war that becomes a regional conflict. Sunni sympathizers in the region - most notably in Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Syria - would funnel arms and cash to their kinsmen in Iraq to counter the Shi'ites, just as the government of Iran is quietly helping the Shi'ites themselves. "One of the things we've seen elsewhere, whether it is Ireland or Palestine," says Jon Alterman, Middle East director of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, "is that when you have people outside the country that are doing the paying, you will continue to have...