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...only headed lower in the near term, thanks to an OPEC price war that?s turning the Middle East oil belt into some semblance of the airline industry. Cheap oil is tough on developing countries - who are usually trying to sell it - but it?s tidings of comfort and joy for consumer economies like the U.S. and Europe...
...Stone (Philosopher's Stone in the original British version)--is a movie, true Hogwartsians will return to the source and compare written and visual texts with the care of a New Critical scholar. They will find that the book was better--richer in mood, in thrilling melodrama, in joy--than director Chris Columbus' meticulous, stolid film...
...look of his machine is pure sci-fi: an 8-ft. metal frame supports two gas-engine-powered fans, each 38 in. in diameter, that jut like oversize ears above the frame. The pilot stands on a pair of footrests, straps on a body belt and grabs a joy stick-like controller. Moshier says the Solotrek will someday travel 8,000 ft. above the trees at up to 80 m.p.h. "There are lots of nonbelievers," he admits. "But I always knew we could do this." Somebody at the Defense Department must agree; the Pentagon has invested $5 million...
...With Kabul in opposition hands and Kandahar, the regime's spiritual center, under siege by opposition Pashtun, the Taliban was on the brink of total collapse. But inside the Pentagon, joy was tempered by the grim knowledge of the threats to American forces on the ground. The pace and scale of the Taliban's retreat last week left U.S. special-ops troops scattered throughout a ravaged land that lacks a central governing authority. Dozens of warlords staked claims to their own pieces of turf, and in several cities, ethnic tensions held the potential for fresh violence. And even...
Which brings us back to the Avalanches and why they are a big deal. Here are artists that know the joy of a simple groove that is tweaked, built upon and mutated endlessly, and who apply it to full hedonistic effect. They are the genuine article, unlike Moby and BT, who seem obsessed with making comfortable, bite-sized pop confections . Yet the beats are nearly buried under lush tapestries of melody and the human voice: sweet guitars, soaring strings, flutes and whistles, tinkling piano keys, sung choruses, beatbox, random chatter. Their incredible prowess at arranging complex layers of unorthodox...