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...five other scruffy, music-making characters. Blitzen Trapper gives off a mellow, earnest vibe, even if they’re making country rock in a northern city. They don’t appear to take themselves too seriously: think less prep-schooled Strokes and more a down-home Modest Mouse. Their video for the song “Wild Mountain Nation” is a mash-up between a Best Week Ever skit and Warhol kitsch. Much like a disjointed nightmare, a Godzilla-sized lead singer dwarfs the skyscrapers around him, a cut-out plane flies overhead...
...given confused, often contradictory aspects of France's economic malaise? For example, despite repeated public concerns about unemployment, joblessness has actually decreased each month for the past four years - including another drop in October. Similarly, official statistics show purchasing power in France has grown annually since 2000 - including a modest 2% increase this year - despite public perception to the contrary. Conversely, Sarkozy's call to earn more by working more is neither new, nor attaining results. Laws permitting employees to work more than 35 hours (and exonerating companies from salary-linked social charges for extra-time pay) came into effect...
...Although long-term interventions may be required, it is reassuring to know that we can maintain memory with aging via fairly modest lifestyle changes” he said. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW] CORRECTION: Due to an editing error, the Nov. 29 news article "Beta Carotene May Boost Brain" incorrectly referred to Harvard School of Public Health associate professor Francine Grodstein as male. In fact, Grodstein is female...
...break the bank, especially if we start early, proceed globally and undertake research and development on low-emission energy systems to improve our options. The best guess is that the annual cost of the changeover will remain below 1% of the world's annual income, a very modest price to avoid a potential earthshaking danger. The rich countries will have to help the poor countries in three ways: to get access to the needed low-emission technologies; to bear part of the increased costs of energy in the poor countries at least until those countries can afford it on their...
...Harvard fan—at least, this Harvard fan. After the hockey team beat Cornell on Friday, I somehow knew that a victory over the favored Bulldogs was forthcoming. Fully aware that Yale was 9-0 and still had McLeod, I hedged my bets by predicting a modest 31-28 victory.With the Red Sox newly anointed as world champions, and the Patriots standing at 9-0, I should have known better.—Staff writer Daniel J. Rubin-Wills can be reached at drubin@fas.harvard.edu...