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...Your Own Worst Enemy” sounds remarkably like late-’90s R.E.M., which isn’t surprising considering Springsteen and R.E.M. toured together in support of John Kerry’s presidential campaign in 2004. The crescendo of vocals and violins never reaches the emotional height it aspires to, and the song comes off as pleasant but jarringly un-Bosslike. “Girls In Their Summer Clothes” is another departure from the norm, an attempted fusion of Beach Boys pop and stadium rock that results in the album’s worst track...
...likely to develop malignancies. What's more, such tissue can conceal the disease since both tumors and healthy tissue may show up white on a mammogram. Asian women even draw the short straw when it comes to treatment. Doses of conventional chemotherapy are determined partly by a patient's height and weight, but mounting evidence suggests that certain ethnic groups absorb the chemicals differently. Researchers in Singapore have shown that Caucasian patients may require higher doses per pound of body weight than non-Caucasians. Since most dosing regimens are calibrated to the Western body, some doctors in Singapore report having...
...expressed in conversation or with his name attached, would have marked him for life. Yet the fact that life has driven this alleged senior to the exigency of posting on Craigslist makes his words more amusing than appalling. He is racist, sexist, shallow, and perhaps even height-ist, but now thousands of people know he can’t get a date...
...Expected height in feet (800 m) of the Burj Dubai, a hotel, business and residential complex under construction in the United Arab Emirates. It just surpassed the CN Tower in Toronto, which stands at 1,814 ft. (553 m), as the world's tallest freestanding structure...
Adams and Ren’s study, though it counters myth with hard numbers and quantifications, can yet do little to prevent subtle manifestations of prejudice. For example, at the height of the John Huang “Chinagate” scandal, the March 24, 1997 cover of the National Review portrayed the Clintons in Chinese clothes and hats, holding a pot of tea and displaying buck teeth. Many Asian American groups also complained of widespread discrimination among the community after media coverage of John Huang’s illegal dealings—for example, that the Democratic National Committee...