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...lyrics: “The Sandman’s waiting to deliver me my dream / Guess I’ll lay my head against the elbow and the window / and watch the wheels go.” Then it builds, swept away by M. Ward’s chugging, steam-engine strum and Oberst’s tense splashes of lap steel that lead it into a blazing release. When Jim James’ rich harmonies fan across the track, it’s likes seeing “The Wizard of Oz” go from black-and-white...
...Asia's economy starts to pick up steam, Macau looks to be on another roll. Gambling revenues surged an estimated 17% in August from a year earlier to $1.4 billion, a record monthly total. Aaron Fischer, gaming analyst at brokerage CLSA in Hong Kong, expects the revival to continue. September's revenues could surge 25% or more, he says, and he sees at least "low teens" growth rates annually from 2010 to 2012. "You can put me on record saying Macau is back," Fischer says. (Watch a video about the rise of Poker in China...
...relinquish its advantage. The Owls’ Tracey Lam closed out the first set with an ace. A similar trend characterized the second set, with Rice breaking away late once again. Freshman Taylor Docter tallied three kills, and sophomore Christine Wu contributed an ace.The Crimson ran out of steam in the final set, allowing Rice to jump to a 6-0 lead out of the gate. The Owls utilized the early momentum to generate a 20-8 lead, and although Ingersoll, Fryhofer, and Wu spurred on a 4-0 run, Rice’s Ashleigh McCord...
India's stock market rally seems to have run out of steam, if results of recent initial public stock offerings are any indication. A spate of companies rushing to raise capital in recent weeks has resulted in big names trading below listing prices and some follow-on offerings struggling to find enough investors...
Narinder Kumar wants to buy an electric steam iron. The 24-year-old dhobi, or washerman, earns his living ironing clothes with a coal-fired iron as his ancestors did, in the same shack in south Delhi's Lajpat Nagar district as his father and grandfather before him. It's hard to imagine a workplace with a smaller carbon footprint than Kumar's: At 6 by 4 ft., it consists of only four iron poles holding up a roof made of plywood and corrugated iron. There's one electric fan for the summer days when the heat from the bulky...