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...world talks in ominous terms about the new American empire. But the U.S. was far more of an empire in, say, 1949, when it sat behind its great wall of tank armies and nuclear bombers in static defense of large territories in Western Europe and the Pacific Rim. That empire we are in the process of dismantling. The Soviets are gone, and those places, having risen from the ashes, are quite capable of defending themselves. The threat from North Korea, for example, is no longer the spread of communism but of nuclear weapons. The response should be not a sitting...
Less plodding, less heavy, less static, less fixed. This is the new American strategy: Empire Lite. Its assembly, having been announced piecemeal, has largely been missed. Make no mistake, however. We are in the midst of a great redeployment that will not only redraw the map of the world but also mark the ground to which history itself has moved...
...Dylan or the raw energy of The Strokes, but his own rollicking riffs and deep, warm vocals rock through to establish Wynn’s distinct pop vehicle. Studio glitz takes a backseat to crafting layered pop—not an oxymoron with this band. His latest album, Static Transmission, which was released in the U.S. on July 1, has already been making a big splash in the States. Come see him and the Miracle 3 in concert to get the latest sounds from Europe. Friday, August 1 at 11:30 p.m. $10. T.T. The Bear’s Place...
OPPOSITES ATTRACT Starting with a simple glass tube that collected static charge when rubbed, above, and later using a hand-cranked machine built for the same purpose, left, Franklin meticulously experimented on the behavior of electricity. Perhaps his most important discovery was that electrical phenomena involve equal amounts of opposite charges. He used the terms positive and negative to describe them...
...We’d just hear, ‘I’m coming by plane, or boat,’ then static and a click,” Nick says...