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Websites like the Worst of the Worst, Bad Music Central and the Suckiest Songs on MP3.com sift through the torrent of free music pouring onto the Internet and post the most utterly unlistenable tracks. Worst of the Worst founder Robert Burke says he gets as many as 100,000 page views a month. He thinks of it as the flip side of the digital-music revolution. "The site says what a lot of people are afraid to say: 'You suck!'" Yes, Burke has received death threats...
...takes time to sift through the possibilities (and plenty of spiritual and technological dead ends). Some sites are affiliated with particular sects, some are the ungrounded fantasies of individuals. Others couch extremist rhetoric in reverent tones or disguise hatred as doctrine (the white supremacist Church of the Creator in the U.S., for example...
...fine spring day every year, hundreds of journalists trek to New York City's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel for the National Magazine Awards. The award is the highest honor a magazine can win, and the judges must sift through hundreds of submissions to find 17 winners. That may sound like a lot, but remember, there were some three dozen Oscars handed out this year. And the NMA stabile, in my biased opinion, looks cooler: instead of a naked man holding a sword, the victors receive an Ellie, a replica of an elephant designed by Alexander Calder...
...Rumsfeld simply smiles, icily, through the cacophony. It will be his job to sift and synthesize the slew of contradictory proposals that emanate from these panels, and set priorities. It may have announced itself as the most conservative administration since Reagan, but the Bush team has refrained from simply throwing money at the military in the Reagan fashion. Indeed, it stuck pretty much with the defense budget figures of the Clinton Administration, planning to first undertake a comprehensive review to ensure that monies are wisely spent on remaking the military. Rumsfeld's secretive style may actually help him keep...
...many pro-business lobbyists, President Bush has proclaimed those uncertainties a reason to study the problem further rather than act. But while the evidence is circumstantial, it is powerful, thanks to the IPCC's painstaking research. The U.N.-sponsored group was organized in the late 1980s. Its mission: to sift through climate-related studies from a dozen different fields and integrate them into a coherent picture. "It isn't just the work of a few green people," says John Houghton, one of the early leaders who at the time ran the British Meteorological Office. "The IPCC scientists come from...