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...camp resident Li Baorong, 37, memories of the recent past overwhelm any thoughts about the future. When the quake hit her hometown of Beichuan, she told her mother to run out of their house. She told her to be quick, but when she looked back her mother, who was just a few steps behind, was engulfed in their collapsing house. "I regret that I allowed her to trail behind," Li says. Now she is trying to find the other survivors from her family, which lost seven members. "Where we will go next, I don't know," she says. "This just...
...stanza with sharp play from tri-captain and goalie Evan O’Donnell—who took over goalkeeping duties from junior starter Joe Pike, who sustained a broken thumb the preceeding week—and a crafty goal from Gibbons, the Big Green would go on to overwhelm the home team. After the Crimson had a score nullified for a man in the crease, Dartmouth followed with six unanswered goals to break out to a 9-5 lead that put the game out of reach.Although a slick field often gave Harvard problems, Tillman made no excuses for Dartmouth?...
...both explode halfway through (with organs and screaming, respectively).When not engaging in their usual dramatics, Destroyer does well just being pretty. Opening track “Blue Flower/Blue Flame” sticks firmly to strummy acoustic guitar. Piano and lazy steel guitar eventually drift in, but they never overwhelm Bejar’s poetry. “Introducing Angels” is perhaps the most simplistic song, but it’s also the most straightforwardly beautiful. The lines are literally punctuated by sighs. Strings swell to the song’s climax, piano tinkles in the background...
...depressive song isn’t as brutal as 2006’s suicidal “Just A Thought,” but it’s far more serious and believable. There are also a few shallower, shamelessly fun moments, but they don’t overwhelm the album as they did on “St. Elsewhere.” “Blind Mary” is a catchy lo-fi Motown ballad, complete with handclaps and heart-on-sleeve lyrics. Lead single “Run (I’m A Natural Disaster...
...nitrogen fertilizer we're already using in order to grow record yields of corn and other crops. Truly ramping up biofuel production - unless it can be done in a way that uses much less fertilizer, perhaps with experimental techniques that harness plant waste matter instead of food crops - might overwhelm that system. "We have to be very careful about biofuels in terms of what kind of crops we grow and where we grow them," says Mulholland. "The great expansion of corn could be a real problem." It would be a poor tradeoff if we killed the seas to fuel...