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...such a bad thing. Early on, Bono sang with a moral force that suggested Cotton Mather with a mullet; not satisfied to rock you on "Sunday Bloody Sunday," he needed to convert you. In the towering period that spanned The Joshua Tree to Zooropa, U2 made stadium-size art rock with huge melodies that allowed Bono to throw his arms around the world while bending its ear about social justice. After 1997's Pop - a disastrous mix of disco and hubris that provided a harrowing glimpse of career death - the band decided to banish the lead singer's politics...
...cross the 4.2 mile-long (6.8 km) Great Belt Bridge: Denmark's bountiful wind, so fierce even on a calm summer's day that it threatens to shove your car into the waves below. But wind itself is only part of the reason. In Lem, workers in factories the size of aircraft hangars build the wind turbines sold by Vestas, the Danish company that has emerged as the industry's top manufacturer around the globe. The work is both gross and fine; employees weld together massive curved sheets of steel to make central shafts as tall as a 14-story...
...excessive and inefficiently constructed. Its length and complexity are so daunting that many have been driven to use paid professionals just to fill out the form. Everyone from Congress to President Obama has complained about FAFSA’s structure, which is especially troubling given that, despite its prodigious size, it still fails to take into account assets such as some family homes and even businesses. Therefore, it succeeds in inconveniencing students but not in providing the information that schools actually need to make proper determinations in the allocation of their financial-aid resources. The length and complexity...
...four easy ones off fouls from freshman Peter Boehm, who was forced to fill the void left by Harris. “Evan fouling out didn’t help us, we’re not deep and big, so not having Evan with his experience and his size is a big blow,” Amaker said. “It was unfortunate that he was in position to make the foul.” These four points were huge for Princeton, as Harvard tried to charge back and get a lead. Each time Harvard got closer, Maddox...
...lecturer stands in the front of a class of overachievers, holding a 1-gallon wide-mouth mason jar. He fills it with good-size rocks, then asks the group, “Is this jar full?” The audience agrees that...