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...dance to it) allowed rock, via R&B, to become the popular music. Magnanimity, the crown-virtue of swing, yielded to rock's rebelliousness--which is not a virtue at all, but the weak, ugly stepchild of courage. Nowadays, the glorious mixed-regime-in-music has devolved into plain democracy-in-music: those concerned with musical excellence via jazz can still subsist (democracy is colorful, after all), but the regime is ruled by today's popular music, a low medley of anthems to equality...
From the time I was a boy, I had dreamed of seeing elephants, giraffes and lions in the wild. But as I gazed across the lush African plain, what amazed me even more were all the creatures I'd never known existed--the lechwe, the kudu, the lilac-breasted roller. I watched them in wonder...
Linden is the author of The Parrot's Lament and The Future in Plain Sight...
...NECAR4 doesn't burn hydrogen. Instead, it uses an onboard fuel cell, developed by Ballard, to let hydrogen combine slowly with oxygen at moderate temperatures. What comes out is plain H2O and electricity...
...suburbs. One of the fastest-growing regions in the U.S. is the once wild country around Yellowstone National Park. In fact, perhaps the only place on Earth coming close to containing sprawl is Tokyo, but that's only because the city has taken up nearly all the surrounding Kanto Plain, and growth has nowhere else to go in this part of sea-locked Japan...