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...numbers keep coming in, and they're all flat. Retail sales, after slipping most of the summer, are leveling off. Unemployment is essentially stuck at 4.5 percent. Manufacturing has been firmly in the tank for almost a year, and Wall Street doesn?t seem to be going anywhere at all. The economy is resolutely limping along at what appears to be just above zero growth, just like it has since January...
This all-star brainchild of Damon Albarn from Blur; Dan (the Automator) Nakamura; Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz from Tom Tom Club; and Tank Girl animator Jamie Hewlett is technically a concept album: the CD plays a cartoon on your computer. Well, forget the 'toon and listen to the tunes, for this is the most imaginative pop record of the year. Nakamura's beats are wonderfully atmospheric and danceable; Del Tha Funky Homosapien's playful rhymes are the perfect foil to Albarn's ennui-filled vocals, and Weymouth's giant bass whomps away throughout...
...Metro, no longer Intellectual Haven, becomes instead Lessons in Human Nature. Which is not as far from Large Fish Tank as I would like. It’s about as social, about as intelligent and about as clean...
...everyone else and analyzing. But that’s all it is—mental doodling of sorts. That’s why there’s no conversation. Interacting with someone means they can affect you. We’d rather reduce each other to the fish tank. Alternatively, we can talk very loudly into our cell phones (this being the capital and Verizon a company with foresight, underground mobile gabbing has long been possible...
...daily incident report of violence is once again growing too long to recount in detail. Settlers shot here; an Hamas activist rocketed in his car there; a suicide bombing foiled; a home destroyed by tank fire. The failure of the U.S.-brokered cease-fire to take hold has left the Israelis relying increasingly on their overwhelming technological advantage to track and eliminate Palestinians accused of organizing terror attacks. Last week's laser-guided missile attack that killed eight people in and around a Hamas office in Nablus was followed by further Israeli missile strikes in the West Bank on Saturday...