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...under-the-radar 2003 EP, The Soul Sessions, Joss Stone won critical praise and a blues-club-ful of Norah Jones comparisons with her husky, knowing renditions of vintage soul covers. Stone showed she has taste, but the important question--does she have soul?--went unanswered. Her covers were emotive, but the depth of her feeling, at 16, was a tad suspicious. Where Jones, an ancient 25, shrewdly concedes the limitations of her experience by never oversinging her tidy little songs, Stone, a native of Devon, England, who signed a record deal after performing on a BBC talent show, heaved...
...write about the benefits of job sharing or flextime. But aren't these arrangements rare in the real world? KAUFMAN: Institutional change has not happened. But it's done quietly under the radar at lots of places. People go in and make their own deals...
...three days after the planes fell from the sky, the Kremlin seemed to be in denial about the cause. Two aircraft left Tuesday night from the same Moscow airport, and dropped off the radar screens within 60 seconds of each other. At 10.53 p.m. traffic controllers lost contact with Flight 1047, a Siberia Airlines flight from Moscow to the Black Sea resort of Sochi. A minute later, Volga-Aviaexpress Flight 1303 from Moscow to Volgograd disappeared. The wreckage of the planes was quickly found. In all, at least 90 people had been killed. The massive, near-simultaneous nature...
...exists only in niche markets: Mormon films (Ryan Little's Saints and Soldiers, Richard Dutcher's God's Army), well crafted and proudly square; and Rapture movies (The Moment After, Caught in the Rapture), which announce a personal and earthly apocalypse. Both types of film usually fly under the radar of studios, critics and audiences...
SOME MERCURY MYSTERIES Is there ice on the surface? Radar imaging has detected what appears to be ice reflections in craters near the planet's poles. The walls of these craters may be so steep that sunlight never reaches their floors, putting them in permanent deep freeze...