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...second track off the new disc, to an audience filled with adoration for his trademark mordant social rants. “No Phone,” along with various other tracks off the new album, denounce technology and urban culture with a blander-than-usual strain of Cake’s signature social criticism. The tracks make use of the cultural consciousness that Cake fans crave, and that McCrea obviously still has, although their delivery on the CD pales in comparison to the caustic tunes of Cake’s earlier days...
...Digital light processing projects a spinning color wheel on top of a grayscale image. Pro Black areas look better than on LCDs, and prices are low. Con Videophiles say they see a rainbow-like shimmering that can cause eye strain...
...current supply be stretched? Perhaps. In 2002 the National Institutes of Health reported that people immunized with half doses of vaccine produced enough antibodies to protect themselves. This year's strain would have to be tested, perhaps with health-care workers, since officials are not sure it will work the same...
Fortunately for Harvard, the man Berg replaced, junior Erik Grimm, has sufficiently recovered from a strain of the medial collateral ligament (MCL) in his right knee, and will dress for tomorrow’s game after two weeks on the sidelines...
...immune response. So doctors at Duke University launched a study to determine whether spacing the shots out might save toddlers and their parents some agony--while still protecting children from the flu. The good news: kids inoculated in the spring and again six months later with the same flu strain were as well protected as those immunized twice in close succession. The bad news: doctors don't know if that will hold true if the vaccine strains change--as they often do--from year to year...