Word: soundness
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...quite ready to choose your own junior tutorial leader or thesis advisor for next year? FM has some sound advice to guide you through the daunting process. First comes your own window shopping. Ensure that your advisor is someone with whom you can tolerate spending some serious quality time. A practical consideration: while being easy on the eyes doesn’t hurt, excessive good looks may be detrimental if you are as easily distracted as FM is. Once you have nailed your target, here is how to snag him or her as your very own: 1. Not all department...
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...Darkness on the Edge of Town) that have both cash and nostalgia in abundance. Rap? Not many reissues. The Grateful Dead? Too many to count. Older bands fare better for technological reasons; advances in transferring music from analog to digital mean that most records from the '70s and '80s sound demonstrably better, even to amateur ears. "That's a big selling point," says Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys, who are in the midst of reissuing three of their early albums. "People who care about sound really care. Our records were too tinny and didn't have enough...
...true test of the reissue market's strength and revenue-generating power will come in September. The Beatles' albums haven't been touched since their original transfer to CD in 1987. Early word is that the remastered records sound great, though because of disagreements with Apple, they probably won't be available on iTunes, and the extras - mostly making-of documentaries - are a little underwhelming. They'll probably sell anyway, but if the Beatles and EMI are feeling just, they'll remember that the money they take from reissues is equal to the love they make them with...
Readers come away from bonnet books with an easy-to-digest history lesson and, jah, a little Pennsylvania Dutch dialect. There are occasional strident notes - a character or two who sound as if they'd be more at home at a Starbucks than at a Singing. But at their best, these books capture the quiet faith that suffuses Amish life. Which is not to say the Amish don't ever have fun. Most of the books are set during the characters' Rumspringa, or "running around" years, the time when the Amish lift the stringent rules for courting youth...