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...nasal stylings with which Pudnik intoned previous albums and work exceptionally convincingly over the track’s shifting tempos, heavy reverb, and bottomless chorus. But while it works when plucked out from the rest of the album, even “Truck Stop Blues” falls prey to the same pratfalls, which will continue to plague NFG as long as they remain rooted in making adolescent love songs—and maybe beyond. Every single song on this album is about a failed or failing relationship, and while this has long been constant fodder for musicians, New Found...
...With the slowdown in construction of the Allston science complex, local residents have become increasingly worried that the promised renewal of Allston will fall prey to Harvard’s shrinking budgets...
...Basra have sustained deep wounds over three decades. British forces and government agencies based in Basra after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion expected to be received as liberators. But they failed to convince locals that they could deliver on their promises of reconstruction and development, leaving young Basrawis prey to the blandishments of the militias, says Hilary Synnott, the British diplomat who presided over southern Iraq from July 2003 to January 2004. "In the early days, the Western narrative was that the people shooting at us were al-Qaeda and former regime loyalists," Synnott says. "That narrative continued long after...
...Stanford, and the close circle of family and friends with whom he runs his businesses, perpetrated a massive fraud based on false promises and fabricated historical return data to prey on investors," said Thomsen. "We are moving quickly and decisively in this enforcement action to stop this fraudulent conduct and preserve assets for investors...
...reason is that marine ecosystems and food webs are far more complicated than the one-to-one predator-and-prey relationship we might expect. Analyzing the waters off Western Africa and the Caribbean, where baleen whales breed, Gerber and her colleagues mined marine data to create ecosystem models that plotted the feeding interactions between whales and fish. (They chose these waters in part because Japan is using the fishery argument to persuade Caribbean and African nations to support the lifting of the whaling...