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...surpasses so many other genres of music in its ability to grab a listener, hold them transfixed and then fling them away completely changed. The Strokes inflect all their songs with the same disaffected, frustrated tone, and The Raveonettes use the same three chords in every noirish number they perform, yet the final product of both bands is undoubtedly raw rock music. Strip away overproduced backup and the extra three minutes in synthesized pop interludes, and honest songs which speak with the frankness of a genuine friend remain. And though the Stones epitomize the brash attitudes of these bands, Mick...
...stopped them from exploiting the bizarre rules of quantum physics to make computers whose tiny registers can be both on and off--registering 1 and 0 at the same time. As hard as it is to fathom, theorists have proved that such a machine--a quantum computer--could perform multitudes of calculations simultaneously, leaving the mightiest supercomputers choking in the dust...
...different numbers (1,024 to be exact). But a row of 10 qubits, because of its quantum nature, can hold all the numbers at once. To find the square root of every number from 1 to 1,000, you would load them all onto a row of 10 atoms, perform a single calculation, and--voila--all the answers would appear...
...does not want what is on offer, however cheap it may be. What still is required is a national commitment to structural reform. Revising corporate-governance rules would be a good start. Right now, for example, bank managers need never fear for their jobs no matter how poorly they perform; that's because extensive cross-ownership between banks and affiliated companies minimizes publicly available shares, making corporate takeovers, especially by foreigners, exceedingly difficult. Shielded from competition, lame banks are free to limp along with little incentive to reform. Another example strikes right at the heart of the country's pocketbooks...
...some states, the laws require women to make two trips to the clinic: first for the sole purpose of receiving anti-choice information and then a return trip for their abortion. Eighty-six percent of counties in the United States have no doctors trained, qualified and willing to perform abortions. For women who are certain that an abortion is the right choice (and regardless of legislation women have felt and will at times continue to feel this certainty), these delays and restrictions mean that by the time she is able to access an abortion, the fetus will have continued...