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...calls "the most simple instrument in the world-just a branch of tree minus termites," is radically new to the classical stage. "It's one of those things where, if you put something out in the universe and you really, really want it, it eventually comes back," says the northwest-Queensland-born, Brisbane-based Barton. "I remember sitting in the old car in Mount Isa and listening to my AC/DC but also my classical music and just thinking, It would be so great to have the didgeridoo with that...
...August 14 issue of the New Yorker, Nicholas Lemann says, "Great citizen journalism is like the imagined Northwest Passage - it has to exist in order to prove that citizens can learn about public life without the mediation of professionals." If the measure of a successful citizen journalist is popularity, then Trent Vanegas comes out on top. Without any media background whatsoever, Vanegas has created a celebrity gossip blog - Pink Is the New Blog - that has become a favorite among celebrities, their publicists and the average American, bringing the blog over 200,000 visitors a month. Writing with tact, Vanegas fills...
...were asleep and we woke up to bombs falling on us," says Noor Hashem, 13, a niece of Abbas Hashem, speaking from a bed in the government-run hospital in Tyre, six miles northwest of Qana. Noor, who wears a brown headscarf, says she had been sleeping beside her older sister Zeinab and a cousin. They fled the shattered building and ran to her aunt's house nearby where they waited six hours before the rescue services could reach them. Her mother went to look for her three brothers - Mahdi, 7, Jaafar, 12, and Abbas, nine months - and Noor says...
...said. He moved toward her, grabbing her arm and prying the knife away. Upon hearing the details from Rusty, psychiatrist Eileen Starbranch wanted Andrea hospitalized again. This time she would be sent to Memorial Spring Shadows Glen, a private center in northwest Houston...
...Student debt is like quicksand—it swallows you up before you have a chance to gain your footing,” Sen. Charles E. Schumer ’71, D-N.Y., told The Northwest Indiana Times yesterday. “Graduating from college should kick start a young person’s professional life, but massive debt will just bog you down for decades...