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...that has brought its population under control, there's another where things are still exploding. For every country that has figured out the art of sustainable agriculture, there are others that have worked their land to exhaustion. The population bomb may yet go off before governments can snuff the fuse, but for now, the news is better than it's been in a long time. "We could have an end in sight to population growth in the next century," says Carl Haub, a demographer with the nonprofit Population Research Bureau. "That's a major change...
...months later, Guberman was talking on the phone, pacing the hallway, when he noticed that the fuse box was partially open. For reasons that remain unknown, perhaps the hand of God, he opened the box. Written on the inside of the fuse box door were the words "gluttony" and "wrath." He was intrigued, but a quick search revealed no clues. Once again, he laid the matter to rest. Guberman had a chance encounter with a couple of former Canaday F residents and asked them about the sins. They knew nothing of the subject. Enter Clint T. Kenley '03, a blockmate...
Avery said that she and the committee will fuse the separate sections into a final version of the grant application in the coming weeks. The separate sections include the grant procedure mission statement, potential guidelines for applicants, a possible budget form, a timetable for the grant awards and a draft of a follow-up questionnaire for grant recipients...
...true miracle of City of God is the way its disparate parts fuse into a consistently enthralling and suspenseful whole. In such novels as Ragtime (1975) and Billy Bathgate (1989), Doctorow mixed historical and fictional figures in ways that magically challenged ordinary notions of what is real. His new novel repeats this process, with even more intriguing and unsettling consequences. One of the many voices in the book says, "The experience of experience is untransmittable." Reading City of God is exactly such an experience...
Knoxville, Tenn. rock-jazz-funk band Gran Torino is an impressive musical collaboration of nine fine musicians. Together, they fuse the sounds of trumpet, guitar, keyboard, sax and other instruments into smooth music with groove. To their fans' delight, Gran Torino now has 11 new songs on their second album, Two. The new album follows their 1997 release, One. Two features more singing than its largely instrumental predecessor, but many of the new album's songs, like "Phyllis" and "Days of the Tested," have excellent solos generously mixed in. While lead singer Chris Ford's vocals often sound uncomfortably similar...