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...experience alone is bizarrely engaging. Characters merge and switch roles, slip without warning into gaudily staged dance routines, and ramble about six-foot moles and eating paper as the story follows Leah from traumatic childhood music lessons to the death of her husband, making all sorts of incomprehensible pit stops along...
...Wednesday, Defense Secretary Robert Gates told Congress that its recent cost and schedule snafus were "unacceptable." And while the Pentagon is not about to kill the program, the rush to push the plane down the assembly line and into the skies highlights the nation's continuing inability to pit its limited resources against real threats...
...Drivers will still make pit stops to change tires, but mid-race refueling is banned, meaning cars will have to carry 66 gal. (250 L) of fuel, up from 21 gal. (80 L) in the past. Aerodynamic testing cut from eight days to six. A new points system makes a win far more valuable than a safe (but boring) second place...
...these changes, however, fail to produce anything of the caliber of Groove Armada’s more youthful electro-pop rivals like MGMT and Passion Pit. Whilst the dark melody and synth saturation of “Paper Romance” conspire to create something quite heartfelt and expressive, it is often quite evident throughout the album’s progression that Groove Armada is distinctly out of its comfort zone...
...danger of chronic joblessness is that jobs are a part of the social fabric. Ideally, they connect people to constructive projects and well-ordered institutions. They foster self-discipline and reward responsibility. Some optimists theorize that crime rates might continue to drop in coming years as police pit their strength against a dwindling army of criminals. In his recent book, When Brute Force Fails, UCLA's Kleiman argues that new strategies for targeting repeat offenders - including reforms to make probation an effective sanction rather than a feckless joke - could cut crime and reduce prison populations simultaneously. Safer communities, in turn...