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...Like any other brand-new software, GarageBand has its bugs. For one thing, you're supposed to be able to use digital music files from iTunes, theoretically making sampling a snap, but most of mine kept getting rejected. And GarageBand hogs a lot of computer memory. Still, these are quibbles compared with how easy it is to create a song with up to 64 layers of loops and tracks. Coolest of all: you can save that work of genius to your iPod. After all, your music should be as simple to listen to as it was to make...
...Latin America has also been a major area of interest of mine, going back for the last 15 years, since my time at the World Bank, and it’s a period when Latin America is not getting the attention it should be getting from the U.S., so I was also eager to renew some past connections and be involved in the dialogue about the future of the Americas,” Summers said...
...friend of mine from home is a self-proclaimed metrosexual. You know those Von Dutch hats that Paris Hilton wears. When you see them in the store, you wonder: Who’d ever spend fifty bucks on that? Well the answer is, he would. He’s the kind of guy that spends his Saturday afternoons shopping downtown, dropping hundreds of dollars on designer jeans, shoes, belts and whatever other must-have accessories for the self-proclaimed metrosexual he can find. And what is most surprising is that this nameless friend—a football player for University...
...returned from Africa and a stint in the Peace Corps, I had trouble convincing physicians that my ongoing digestive-tract problems (later diagnosed as irritable-bowel syndrome) seemed to be linked to periodic hives and aching muscles and joints. The docs were stumped. Now I realize that ailments like mine afflict many people. Your article helped clarify the mechanisms by which these reactions occur in the body. This understanding, along with new discoveries about the links between inflammation and psychological ailments such as depression and stress, may lead us to a better appreciation of the mind-body connection and holistic...
...threw a bright light on the shadowy practice of body sales. New Orleans' Tulane University last week got caught up in the controversy when it was revealed that seven cadavers it gave a distributor had been blown up by the U.S. Army as part of a test of land mine--resistant footwear. Says Monique Coulon Nemeth, whose deceased father's body may have been among the remains: "It's so sad to do this to [families], so wrong...