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...Republic of employing “wholly negative methods” in its book reviews. Wood responded with an 11-page letter (later published in the third issue), which included the retort, “[n+1] had serious and sensible things to say about a certain strain of negative reviewing...but it was itself a wholly negative attack on negativity.”TAKING IT TO THE PEOPLEDespite their spattering on the page, Greif says there is actually quite a bit of mutual admiration between the editors of n+1 and Wood. On the other hand, the journal...
...painfully cliché (“If I’m made for you / You’re made for me / It’s too good to be”). What is most refreshing about the album, though, is how effortless Stone makes singing seem. Rarely does she strain to hit a note or force herself to hold one. And even when her vocal riffs last long enough to make your jaw drop, Stone is in complete control. Her singing on “Arms of My Baby” is playful but polished, and listening to Stone belt...
...have a better chance of surviving a particularly fatal strain of the Ebola virus than getting into Harvard College...
...years, countries around the world have shared new flu strains with the WHO, to help scientists track genetic changes in the fast-mutating virus. The WHO uses that information to create a seed strain to drug companies, at no cost, which then manufacture and sell commercial flu vaccines. That process continued with avian flu until late last year, when Indonesia-the country that has suffered the most bird-flu deaths-suddenly stopped sharing virus samples and instead signed an agreement with the U.S. drug company Baxter to provide virus strains in exchange for help in eventually producing its own vaccine...
...more, the heat is only continuing to rise. This past year was the hottest on record in the U.S. The deceptively normal average temperature this winter masked record-breaking highs in December and record-breaking lows in February. That's the sign not of a planet keeping an even strain but of one thrashing through the alternating chills and night sweats of a serious illness...