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Still, country is a universe in which even the tiniest deviation from tradition is chewed over obsessively and often spit out. Unlike rock fans, most of whom are attracted to the music's fusion of styles, a large number of country fans take it upon themselves to enforce a vague (and deluded) notion of genre purity. Acts that other listeners take for granted as part of the twangy firmament, from Willie Nelson to Shania Twain, are often disparaged for their perceived experimental perversions--not enough fiddle, too much navel--with a prim cruelty that would not be out of place...
...welcome any sort of proof,” it reads, “but things like a cure for AIDS or cancer, a solution for global poverty, or a cold fusion reactor would be particularly convincing as well as greatly appreciated...
...French officials - including President Jacques Chirac - indicated that the French site at Cadarache, 65 km north of Marseilles, had all but bagged the €10 billion deal to host ITER, which will try to mimic the sun's power by using 100 million-degree Celsius heat to create nuclear fusion. The technology is unproven on this scale, but during a nationally televised interview Chirac declared that " France is on the verge of getting ITER" over the rival site of Rokkasho-Mura in northern Japan. Then E.U. and Japanese negotiators produced a "technical agreement" that French Deputy Minister for Research Fran...
With alumni bands ranging from hip-hop crews with live instruments to folk rock ensembles, to Argentinean polka-fusion beatboxers (okay, that last one probably doesn’t exist...yet), Harvard alums seem stubbornly resistant to futile pigeonholing attempts...
...Western parallel until Brancusi. The most extreme are probably those meant to suggest, in a notched and folded cliff of black lacquer rising from the brow, a landscape, specifically Ichi-no-tani Canyon, the site of a famous battle in the 12th century. And there are helmets whose fusion of unstated ferocity and formal elegance seems to epitomize the nature of Zen warriorhood. One, a 16th century filigree of gilded leather in the form of a courtier's hat, is simply inscribed with the character mu--nothingness...