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...city's dominant music form to date - Hong Kong's independent-music scene has suddenly become crowded. As you would expect, a great number of the bands that comprise it are vehicles for the subpar songwriting and cack-handed guitar playing of solemn undergraduates, chubby expats and the sort of people that have fabulous haircuts but dreadful day jobs. But a handful of ensembles are worth crossing the street to see. And a very few - perhaps no more than two or three - are indisputably talented. Chochukmo (the name is a joining of the Cantonese words for persist, chase and feather...
...derisive letters Time received from older Americans about its January story on teenage unemployment [Feb. 1]: As a teen who has been unsuccessful in finding a job, I am offended by generalizations that teens have minimal skills and a poor work ethic. It is this sort of mind-set--and not just the economy--that prevents teenagers from getting jobs...
...these robes are slated to cost $35 or less, and they’ll probably feature some sort of Currier insignia—perhaps even “the tree.” We imagine that, come Housing Day, these fluffy garments will help a few initially distraught freshman come to feel warm and fuzzy about their new House community...
Tigers are what is known as charismatic megafauna - the sort of big, well-known animal that tends to be good marker of a jungle's ecological health - and green groups are taking advantage of the Chinese new year to press for better protection. They face a battle on many fronts: tigers are threatened by deforestation, hunting and the illegal trade of their bones and other parts, which are used in some forms of traditional Chinese medicine, mostly for consumers in Asia. (See the top 10 invasive species...
...Thus, when canals freeze over, Dutch fans explain that skating on them is cathartic. We have conquered our enemy. Let's celebrate by running our blades all over it! Skating is so ingrained in Dutch DNA that fans talk about one particular race, the "Eleven-City Tour," with the sort of reverence normally shown by global soccer fans for their favorite teams. The Eleven-City Tour is a 125-mile skate over frozen lakes and canals in the northern Dutch province of Friesland. Since all the water has to be frozen at once, the race is hardly an annual event...