Word: hybridization
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Byron has devoted albums to the klezmer music of the eastern European Jews, to a variant Afro-Cuban sound he describes as "pan-Caribbean" and to a hybrid funk/hip-hop adventure with Biz Markie. His finest album may be 1996's Bug Music, a thrilling exploration of the jumpy, angular and surprisingly substantive music written for, among other things, 1940s cartoons. On his most recent disc, last year's A Fine Line, he brought together works by Stephen Sondheim, Ornette Coleman, Roy Orbison, Stevie Wonder and Giacomo Puccini. He was hoping to show, he wrote, "that a song untethered from...
...their sophomores for tutorial and ask them earnestly, “What should we be teaching you?” With the possible exception of a few expository writing classes, no other part of Harvard attempted to teach creative production. The lack of any model whatsoever created an uneasy hybrid between Germanic rigidities and American existential voids...
...ahead of the Administration. Automakers may lack the single-mindedness that regulation may bring, but they have been making ever more economical cars. Ford and GM are dueling it out over whose emissions are lower and whose suvs will get more mileage. Toyota and Honda are spending billions on hybrid engine cars, while companies like GE and Whirlpool are developing more efficient low-BTU mousetraps, like dishwashers that can be programmed to click on in the middle of the night. A few bones thrown its way, and business would surely do more...
...Conservation? "A personal virtue," Cheney near-scoffed in a recent preview of his task force's opus. Efficiency? Cheney's report tosses $4 billion in tax credits for gas-pinching hybrid cars, and a handful of other initiatives meant to keep America getting more out of the power it has. But this is not a man who believes America is ready to don the proverbial sweater, not an America where only 25 percent of households are marrieds-with-children but 43 percent of the vehicles on the road are SUVs, pickups and minivans...
...EXAMPLE America's largest energy consumer, the Federal Government, could cut power use 20% just by using common conservation techniques. By investing in new technologies like hybrid cars, it will convince companies there's a profit to be made in conservation