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...Navy wants to recruit trained dolphins and sea lions for guard duty at a base on Puget Sound, close to Seattle, where they would detect terrorist swimmers and scuba divers...
...instance--to sound self-absorbed--take journalists. They haven't fared well recently with the courts, but for decades reporters shielded their sources by citing a famous concurrence from Justice Lewis Powell. In 1972, Powell joined the court's majority in denying journalists an exemption from testifying before a grand jury. But in a separate opinion, he offered an alternative--a test balancing press freedom against the obligation to testify--that many courts used to keep reporters off the witness stand. The opinion no doubt encouraged sources to speak and so allowed us all to become better informed...
...Yoko Ono and Michael Jackson could charge licensing fees on The Beatles’ sound, they’d make a fortune off Field Music’s folky and relatively empty second release, “Tones of Town...
...frustrating aspect of their sound is its insistent use of sharp rhythms. The guitar leads and accompanying, layered drumbeats are short and abrupt rather than flowing melodically. You’re not being wooed through the song as with many Britpop bands; you’re being jerked around by a lack of consistent melody. Whereas some groups can use this to their artistic favor, Field Music has produced an album that makes listening uncomfortable...
...Matt Ward takes a little getting used to. That’s not to say the hustle and bustle of “Post-War,” his most recent full-length, was unwelcome or obtrusive. No, that album manages to sound fresh while staying faithful to its predecessors, as the addition of a full-time backing band has put some meat on the bones of Ward’s previously wispy arrangements. “To Go Home,” the album’s first single and the eponymous highlight of M. Ward?...