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Some came to hear performances by three bands, Expanding Man, Piraeus and The Dailey Planet. Others romped through a Velcro obstacle course or played hackensack in the grass...
...bluegrass music; in Springfield, Tennessee. Distinguished by the mutton-chop sideburns and chiseled demeanor that gave him the aura of a patriarch from another century, Monroe was one of those rare artists who sired a musical genre. In 1938 he formed his first band, calling it the Blue Grass Boys after his home state, Kentucky. The group soon took on the bluegrass configuration of mandolin, fiddle, guitar, bass and banjo, paired with the near-falsetto harmonies that Monroe called his "high, lonesome sound." Bluegrass lives on across the country, including at his own Bean Blossom festival in Indiana...
...same time, the WHO and the Federation of American Scientists operate a grass-roots monitoring system called ProMED. Launched in 1993, it is essentially an electronic conference table that enables its 5,600 members--epidemiologists, physicians, government officials and other interested parties from more than 115 countries--to notify colleagues of disease outbreaks and to share crucial information about cases, diagnosis and treatment, if available...
Such behavior by the ruling parties, combined with the grass-roots nationalism stirred by years of brutal fighting, has left it all but certain that the very people who perpetrated the war will gain recognition as its postwar rulers. Add to that the absolute control of the media on each of the three sides and victory for the micronationalists seems inevitable. "We're under a blockade," says a Socialist party Serb opposition candidate, Zivko Radisic. "In the state media, you won't find a single word about us except to call us traitors and communists...
...parade also offers evidence of the city's shift to the political left since its last celebration. Grass-roots activist groups like the Cambridge Eviction Free Zone and the Cambridge Economic Opportunity Committee took part, a reminder of the stunning abolition of rent control--for decades a liberal rallying cry--which state voters handed to Cambridge residents...