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Metal band Jucifer deliver abrasive indie-rock that recalls such heavyweights as Nirvana, My Bloody Valentine and Black Sabbath. Jet by Day and Medea Connection also perform. 9 p.m. $8, 18+. The Middle East Upstairs, 472 Massachusetts...
...shows last week was micro-shorts. Labels like Michael Kors, Tommy Hilfiger and Proenza Schouler showed shorts cropped high on the thigh. Some were inspired by the increasingly popular board shorts worn by surfers--and those who imagine themselves as surfers. Kors took his inspiration from the pleasure-seeking jet-setters on the island of Capri. But you don't have to be superrich to take on this reinvention of '70s hot pants--just rich enough to invest in cellulite cream...
...corporate governance because of a pay flap that won't go away. The tipping point came last week when the exchange, in a letter responding to inquiries from Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman William Donaldson, detailed a trove of Grasso enrichments--from the requisite car and driver, private-jet privileges and club memberships to a previously undisclosed $48 million in benefits due him by 2007. That's on top of the $140 million deferred-income payout announced two weeks earlier, which had been building up for three decades and finally was disclosed at the time of Grasso's contract...
...pioneering Mercury mission, who became heroes before they even lofted skyward, the identity of only two of China's 14 taikongyuan, or "space pilots," has been released. All that ordinary Chinese know about them is they're each about 1.7 m tall, weigh 65 kg and served as jet-fighter test pilots who "are No. 1 in physical status and psychological quality," according to statements by senior space official Zhang Houying...
...carpenter, lashed 47 gunpowder rockets to a chair affixed with kites, ignited them and vanished in a plume of smoke, never to be heard from again. The modern program traces its roots to the 1950s, when the U.S. deported Qian Xuesen, one of its foremost rocket scientists at the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California, for being a suspected red. Qian returned to China, helped reverse-engineer a Russian R-2 rocket (an improved version of the infamous German V-2) left behind by Soviet advisers and eventually oversaw the launch of China's first satellite, in 1970. The mission...