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Nature loves the rhythm of a meandering river, with the summertime droughts and spring floods that nurture wildlife and push a waterway down a new path. Commercial barges, however, demand constancy, in the form of a canal filled with enough water to keep their 9-ft.-deep hulls from running aground. So after the great 1927 flood, the Army Corps of Engineers began shackling the unruly current. The corps built levees along the river's banks to hold in the water and turned its rapids and ever changing sandbars into a more civilized staircase of 29 locks and dams stretching...
SEIZE THIS! Been told you have epilepsy, but can't get the disease under control? Now a report suggests that as many as 25% of patients thought to have epilepsy are actually suffering from low blood pressure, heart-rhythm problems or panic attacks. Clues that epilepsy is not the culprit: the attacks usually come when the patient is sitting or standing, and--no surprise here--epilepsy medication doesn't help...
This Sacramento, Calif., rock group finds rhythm in noise, moments of clarity amid stretches of anguish. Its deejay seamlessly mixes in with the other players, giving the band's songs subtle texture and depth. White Pony's emotional range is impressive: the track Knife Prty [sic] cries out with murderous abandon; the spare Teenager creeps along carefully, with singer Chino Moreno sighing his lines above a tender guitar. Deftones scrapes the rust off the metal/hip-hop genre...
...Elvis shout "You ain't nothin' but a hound dog!" it changed music forever, the revolution was already well under way. In fact, you could say it began in 1950, when a pair of 17-year-old white kids named Leiber and Stoller teamed up to write for black rhythm-and-blues performers like Jimmy Witherspoon and Big Mama Thornton--for whom they yelled and banged out Hound Dog in 10 inspired minutes...
...Famers, celebrate their half-century mark as partners and accept the Johnny Mercer Award from the National Academy of Popular Music/Songwriters' Hall of Fame. As songwriters, record producers, record-company owners and music publishers, they are legends in the business, having written and produced scores of hits--from the rhythm and blues of Kansas City to witty pop ditties like Yakety Yak and Poison Ivy and soul classics like Stand...