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...difficult to think of many other times and many other presidencies when so many dangerous events were happening at once," says Wendy Sherman, a State Department official under President Clinton. "But there's so much going on in every global hot spot because the Bush Administration really opened up Pandora's box with little-to-no plans to support their actions." At the same time, there is a danger that Bush's belated embrace of conventional diplomacy will turn out to be a cover for disengagement, at a time when U.S. leadership is still required to fend off civil...
Because it's easy to use, you could easily think of Pandora as simple Internet radio. But it's much more than that, and, like the performance of a great musician, the exhausting brainwork of the service is disguised by its smooth operation...
...Pandora.com, click "Create a New Station" and type in the name of a band you like. Immediately, music begins streaming-a song from your artist, followed by songs that should appeal to you. "Should" is the operative word here: the service is streaming songs that Pandora's creators at the Music Genome Project have determined as having similar musical characteristics...
...digital rights management controls the streaming audio, there's a limit to how many songs you can skip in a session. As you work on it, you'll start steering your way towards music you've never heard of-but somehow enjoy. That is Pandora's goal...
...animated the silents' stereotype of the flapper in such films as Love 'Em and Leave 'Em (1926), deepened and darkened her allure in A Girl in Every Port (1928) and reached her apex as Lulu, the embodiment of sexual energy and evil in Austrian Filmmaker G.W. Pabst's Pandora's Box and its sequel Diary of a Lost Girl (1929); of a heart attack; in Rochester. Unable or unwilling to accommodate to the Hollywood system, she saw her star fade out by 1940. Her crisp essays of reminiscence and criticism, collected in the 1982 Lulu in Hollywood, faithfully and unflatteringly...