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Undoubtedly, it was worth the long wait. With their fifth full-length album, this German heavy metal-turned-experimental indie band perfect the superb attention to detail and rhythmic awareness they demonstrated on 1998’s Shrink. The new album is a stunning assembly of illusive beats, eerie electronic noises and subtle, meandering melodies. As such, the album sounds like a crossbreed of glitchy, danceable techno, catchy pop-rock and minimalist jazz—all with a sustained art-house aloofness...
...Dropkick Murphys have made quite a name for themselves since they formed in 1996 in the basement of a Boston barbershop. Over the past seven years, they have released four full-length albums, a steady stream of singles and split 7´´ and they toured as if stasis were out of style...
...length of “Freedom of Information Act: The People’s Right to Know,” an instructional video which the Pentagon uses to teach its employees how to interpret the act’s maximum-disclosure provision...
...Length of the Science B-57 “Dinosaurs and their Relatives” midterm...
Standardized tests alone will not improve the education of this country’s children. Tests of reasonable length might be good as diagnostic measures—to pinpoint which students, classes or schools need extra help. But actual improvements in education can only occur when reforms are made. Tests need to be combined with better staff training, better teaching, better use of resources and better organization to have any significant effect. And while standardized tests can be used for diagnostics, by only testing certain skills, they are not full measures of student achievement. These imperfect tests should...