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Enough has been written about the phenomena that Seattle bands have popularized this past year. Now that the flannel has stopped flying and the hooplah died down, most of the bands that capitalized on hailing from that grunge mecca have now crawled back into the second-rate clubs from whence they came...
...probed the evolution and hidden purposes of biological phenomena that most people take for granted: menstruation, morning sickness and allergic reactions. Profet's ideas about menstruation fit into a general theory that all these natural processes protect against infection and disease. Morning sickness, she believes, prevents pregnant women from eating certain vegetables or spices that might harm a fetus. Allergies give sufferers a defense against plant-borne toxins...
...from dim to bright and back again. After nearly 2 million individual observations that yielded just one dubious MACHO, Griest's group was ready to give up. Then, unexpectedly, the computer spit out what he calls "a beautiful event." After Griest and his colleagues had raised and ruled out phenomena that might be tricking them, they were ready to unveil their MACHO...
Another example of this phenomena is "Dirty Day," dedicated to poet, writer and barfly Charles Bukowski. Bono assumes an eerie falsetto, with a frantic buildup of the Edge's guitar for the first part of the song. Yet the song inexplicably swoops from this to slow melancholy, and then to a hopeful throbbing. It plumbs the emotional heights and depths, yet this just makes it all the more difficult to listen...
...time of the 'lift the ban' rally there were enough gay and lesbian faculty that were out that having one more person come out wasn't so much of a phenomena," says Allen...