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...After a four-hour battle, two fighters were killed and one, an Uzbek teen, was captured; 32 others escaped. Soldiers found a cache of heavy arms including rocket-propelled grenades before the compound was razed to the ground. MEANWHILE Peace Pills In a finding reminiscent of the happy drug soma in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, U.K. researchers have discovered that maximum-security prisoners given pills containing vitamins, minerals and fatty acids committed 37% fewer disciplinary offences than inmates who popped placebos...
...Winthrop: Andrew D. Bradt, John M. Gansner, Soma Mukherjee, Robert K. Silverman, Matthew E. Swanson and Abigail Tucker...
...paradigm. Casablancas howls about sex, drugs and rock ’n roll in earnest, backed by a motley crew of influences ranging from 50s jangle pop to British Invasion rock to New Wave. The songs, save some masterful use of modulation showcased in tracks like “Soma,” are simplistic—no fancy drumming, straightforward guitar chords in a verse-chorus-verse matrix. Still, good, catchy music doesn’t have to be cerebral or complex—Is This It hits the listener on a gut level and gets under his skin...
SoNo: South Norwalk in Connecticut WeHo: West Hollywood SoBe: South Beach in Miami SoBro: South Bronx in New York City SeaTac: Area around Seattle and Tacoma LoDo: Lower Downtown in Denver SoMa: South of Market Street in San Francisco NeChe: Northeast Chelsea in New York City SoDo: South of Downtown in Seattle SoNa: South of Narodni Street in Prague
...well-told, occasionally fascinating anecdotes about the perplexed, confused and frequently angry ways blacks and whites (as well as a few Asian Americans and Hispanics) talk--or more often don't talk--to one another about racial matters, what have you really learned? Mainly, in the words of Soma Golden Behr, one of the editors who supervised the project, that when it comes to race, Americans "have done some of the easy things and now we're in for the hard stuff." That's worth repeating but not exactly news to anyone who has been paying attention to the issue...