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...music signals a return to hip-hop’s roots, situating the fringe art of turntablism within a more immediate song-based context. For the most part, this yields fabulous results. The first four tracks are unstoppable. After a dizzying intro, rapper Large Professor spits raw battle salvos over spine-cracking drums and a sick guitar lick on “XL,” followed by a whirling display of beat juggling and a multi-movement beatbox piece. The guest emcees are also a major step up from their previous album, featuring the inimitable Biz Markie...
...wrestle with the burden of dealing with an Olympic victory that has slipped from her hands not once but twice. "I just wanted to come home with the gold," she said immediately after the competition. "I have to remind myself to keep my head up high." Her emotions still raw, the tears flowed freely when she left the ice the next evening after her exhibition skate to Fields of Gold...
...access to mature material--such as the NC-17-rated tales involving J.K. Rowling's Draco Malfoy and Severus Snape submitted by a girl whose online bio says she's 13. But censorship would be counter to Li's vision of an online community free to share its stuff, raw and uncut--as long as the graphic material is clearly marked. "I know how hard these writers work, and I respect it," says Li. Running the site takes 25 hours out of his week, but Li says if it helps aspiring scribes find an audience, it's worth...
...sure, it's in the interest of the U.S. economy to maintain a healthy steel industry. And on a variable-cost basis (for raw materials, energy and so forth), integrated steelmakers could well be globally competitive. But a bailout for their legacy costs and years of poor planning, coupled with trade protection, would set a bad precedent, critics charge. While many countries subsidize their steelmakers, the trend in recent years is for trade barriers to fall. Should the U.S. spark a steel war, that trend could be at risk...
...visit to the firm's Kwangyang operation shows why it's a global leader. Completed in 1992, the plant is laid out like a big assembly line, with barges transporting raw materials like iron ore in one end and finished steel out the other end. Capacity in the blast furnaces matches capacity in rolling mills down the line, yielding efficiencies. The plant is highly computerized, workers aren't unionized, and POSCO doesn't bear heavy pension costs...