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With rolling acoustic guitar rhythms and soft vocals, the music of the Beautiful Girls could pass for something in the genre of mellow rockers like the Dave Matthews Band, David Gray or the famed college band, Dispatch. But it is with the addition of cunning rap solos to gentle melodies and smooth crooning that the Beautiful Girls make their unique mark. Unlike many contemporary rap songs, those of the Beautiful Girls do not replace any sense of musicality with redundancy or a booming bass. A surprisingly high standard of music is maintained throughout this album, and the emotional lyrics sung...
...Three separate LCD chips--red, green and blue--are aimed at a mirror that projects them onto the screen, like regular TV tubes. Pro Handles all the extra lines of HDTV. Con Not as thin as flat-panel LCD or plasma TVs. Black areas of the screen look gray...
...talks about bringing wi-fi to an area, he says he's going to "paint it!" or "light it up!" But the reality isn't that dramatic. Though they sound like a secondary weapons system from the starship Enterprise, the phased-array antennas are actually large, featureless beige-and-gray nubbins that sit unassumingly next to AC units on rooftops. It's almost impossible to pick them out of the skyline, though there are six of them in downtown Spokane, along with 12 smaller "bridge routers" that help fill in shadows cast by buildings. Jim West, Spokane's mayor, likes...
...train crawled between the two stops. We hadn’t even passed 9th St. before the gray-capped thug, no more than five years older than I, slid down the length of the bench in our direction. I had lived in New York for 18 years and never been mugged. I’d even cast aside the questions from blockmates about how dangerous the city can be, proudly proclaiming how comfortable I was alone on the subway...
...Gray boasts a half-century long association with Harvard. She earned a Ph.D. in history from Harvard in 1957, and served as a tutor and assistant professor in history and literature...