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...Superstar Kanye West your article on hip-hop musician Kanye West [Sept. 5] was a brave and smart choice. You gave insights into who West is and, more important, why we should care. West does everything a true musical artist should do: write, produce and perform. He not only employs the traditional hip-hop technique of sampling but uses samples of influential artists like Nina Simone, Shirley Bassey, Marvin Gaye and Luther Vandross. West's songs pay homage to the origins of hip-hop while simultaneously giving today's generation a chance to experience legendary musicians. Justin Li Ottawa...
...study conducted by four Harvard psychologists found that young children without any formal mathematics education are able to understand abstract numbers and perform basic arithmetic tasks...
...real-time developments in the business world. The area has been equipped with 19 daily international newspapers and two banks of four 42-inch plasma screen televisions playing up-to-the-minute financial news. The area also contains Bloomberg Professional terminals, which are commonly used by financial firms to perform market research...
...also entirely possible that no operation will take place. Over the past two years, at least two other medical teams - one in England, one in Kentucky - have announced they were taking the necessary steps to perform a face transplant, only to back down after strong ethical objections were raised...
...What's more, the new proposal is ostensibly part of the Bush administration's grand moon-Mars initiative announced in early 2004. But Mars is not mentioned anywhere in the plans. Nor is the science the crews would perform once they get to the moon. If NASA-not to mention the White House-wants taxpayers to take this plan seriously, they must tighten it up with a deadline that demands greater focus and a specific program of both lunar and Martian exploration. This week's plan is a very good start. Skeptical spacewatchers are right to demand more...