Word: rife
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Opener “Convinced of the Hex” immediately grounds the album in totally foreign territory for Flaming Lips fans. Bass-heavy, rife with corrosive guitar licks and polyrhythmic percussion, the song features a spaced-out—and for the first time, restrained—vocal performance from Coyne. He’s still speaking his own half-cracked pseudo-religious language, but it’s obvious from the beginning that, for the first time in a long time, lyrics don’t matter very much to the Flaming Lips. The downright raucous...
...identity of Odom’s future destination has been rife with rumors, as might be expected with a 6’9”, 210 lb prospect carrying offers from Louisville and UConn...
...read Daniel Okrent's insightful analysis of how Detroit got off track and how the hardy souls who remain are fighting for the city's future. Steven Gray profiled one of those fighters: Bing, the NBA Hall of Famer and steel entrepreneur thrust into an office once rife with corruption. Future issues of TIME will feature stories about Detroit's thriving Muslim population and the city's drive to diversify its industry, while TIME.com will cover the city every day with audio, video and the just-launched Detroit Blog...
...knows why. But in Britain, anyone can phone the government's special flu line and say that they have a cough and fever. A member of the nonclinical staff will issue a week off work and a free packet of Tamiflu. Rumors of abuse are rife. Still baffled? Dr. Marcus Lester, BENFLEET, ENGLAND...
...program into the mid-'90s. "We implemented the strategy of emphasizing to kids that we didn't want to toss them in jail, but that violence would not be tolerated." The city had a record 152 homicides in 1990, just before it implemented Scrap Iron in a targeted area rife with killings. The next year the city-wide figure plummeted to 32, a record...