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...scene. Their self-titled debut album betrayed the band’s powerful combination of Folds’s reckless piano playing, angst-ridden, intelligent lyrics and uncanny ability to write addictive hooks. Wading through the cliché-filled waters of lost love, self-loathing and rejection with a raw originality, Folds quickly proved his rare ability to take the uniquely personal experiences of himself and the characters in his songs and turn them into universal themes. With Folds’s manic pounding on the baby grand and Sledge’s prominent bass-playing, BFF quickly became...
Ranging in sophistication from rat poison to powerful nerve toxins, chemical weapons are by far the most popular among terrorists. That's because the raw materials are relatively easy to get, and the finished products don't have to be kept alive. But chemical weapons aren't well suited for inflicting widespread damage. Unlike germs, chemical agents can't reproduce, observes Tucker. "You have to generate a lethal concentration in the air, which means you need very large quantities." To kill a sizable number of people with sarin, for example, which can be absorbed through the skin as a liquid...
...best track. Branch also shows hints of an alternate persona towards the album’s close. On “Drop in the Ocean,” gone is the infectious jaunt and impulse of earlier tracks, and in its place is a more tortured soul: Raw, brooding and foreboding. Branch uses her lower register to convey a wrenching sense of loss ,and when ascending into her upper register, she conjures the sound of Björk in her melancholy, perhaps the harbinger of darker releases forthcoming...
...kamikazes and perhaps connected to field supporters of the operation. More than 100 names of acquaintances of the hijackers have been forwarded to 18,000 law-enforcement agencies in the U.S. and 20 overseas FBI offices in hopes that a few will help identify terrorists still living. Some raw intelligence led to speculations there might be a phase-two operation, maybe involving car bombs. Some leads suggest a fifth suicide effort was aborted when its target air flight to L.A. was canceled in the wake of the other terrorists' successes...
...Chemical Weapons Ranging in sophistication from rat poison to powerful nerve toxins, chemical weapons are by far the most popular among terrorists. That's because the raw materials are relatively easy to get, and the finished products don't have to be kept alive. But chemical weapons aren't well suited for inflicting widespread damage. Unlike germs, chemical agents can't reproduce, observes Tucker. "You have to generate a lethal concentration in the air, which means you need very large quantities." To kill a sizable number of people with sarin, for example, which can be absorbed through the skin...