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...Matt Pryor, also vocalist for The Get-Up Kids, serves as the only permanent member of this pop-punk band. After a brief tour with Guster, the band is now promoting its new album, Worse For the Wear, which will be released Tuesday. The show opens with friends Matt Pond PA and Rocky Votolato. Thursday, August 7 at 8 p.m. $12. Downstairs, The Middle East, 472 Mass...
...communities aren't immune to the prejudices that plague society at large. At the Palms, located on a quiet suburban street near a Baptist church, teenagers on a couple of random occasions have driven by the entrance screaming homophobic epithets. Another time, the decorative concrete seahorses next to the pond were overturned at night. "We have to be careful not to label things automatically as homophobia. The vandalism could just have been mischievous kids," resident Ernie Settanni says...
...When the economy isn't allowing you to get any bigger, the risk of staying a small fish in the pond is pretty big," says Tom Topolinski, vice president of the Gartner research firm. Already, 25% of the software manufacturers in existence in 2000 have disappeared, mostly by burning through their venture-capital cash. Gartner predicts another 25% will vanish by the end of 2004 through waves of mergers and acquisitions. The recovering stock market is boosting the shares of stronger tech firms more than those of weaker rivals, so there are plenty of bargains around for those whose pockets...
...earth's surface covered by the restless tides and currents of the oceans, the idea of harnessing that movement to serve the planet's energy needs is too tempting to ignore. Since the Middle Ages people have built tidal mills, trapping an incoming tide in a storage pond to turn a wheel as the water ebbs. But the dream has always been to tap the power of the ocean itself - to harness the force of tides mighty enough to erode and shift entire coastlines. And so later this year a small South Wales company called Tidal Hydraulic Generators (THG) plans...
...this point in her life, Mertz is the epitome of an independent woman. Her royalties have enabled her to live in a converted 1820 farmhouse near Frederick, Md. On her nine acres, she has built a gazebo, a waterfall, an Egyptian lotus pond and even a reflecting pool with a life-size copy of the famous ancient Greek statue The Discus Thrower. Inside the house are mementos of her travels, with images of camels everywhere. A bust of Nefertiti sits on her mantel. On a chair is an embroidered pillow that reads BEHIND EVERY GREAT WOMAN IS HERSELF. Lively...