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Just by listening through a stethoscope to the??sounds inside your chest, a well-practiced doctor can tell whether a valve in your heart is leaky, you have a touch of pneumonia in your lungs or your heart isn't pumping as much blood as your body needs. In many cases, a subtle change in the pattern of bodily noises can alert your physician to problems long before symptoms appear. Unfortunately, the art of auscultation, the technical term for listening to those sounds, is slowly dying. Seasoned physicians complain that their younger colleagues are simply more comfortable ordering high-tech...
SARAH HARMER I'M A MOUNTAIN Songs about the??environment are rarely as good as their singers' intentions, but Escarpment Blues, like much of Harmer's third album, is exceptional. The lyrics are oblique ("If they blow a hole in the backbone/ The one that runs cross the muscles of the land"), but the singing is direct. Blessed with a precise alto, Harmer never adds filigree to her vocals or arrangements. She just lets natural beauty speak for itself...
JENNY LEWIS WITH THE WATSON TWINS RABBIT FUR COAT On a brief vacation from the??rock band Rilo Kiley, Lewis takes exuberant steps in lots of musical directions. From the gospel rhythm and secular doubt of The Big Guns ("I've won hundreds at the track but I'm not betting on the afterlife") to the blue-eyed soul of You Are What You Love, each song has a sense of narrative motion, largely because Lewis knows which moments call for delicacy and which demand emotive belting. She can also interpret others' songs, as proved when she nips Handle with...
Bush has bypassed and ignored the??laws set forth by Congress requiring warrants for wiretaps. You could even say he has decided to make his own laws. Although Bush's intentions may be good, it is the precedent being set that we should be worried about. Twenty years from now we may have a President whose intentions are not so creditable. It is obvious that Americans need to fight terrorism, but in doing so, we are eroding the basic tenets our democracy is built on. History is filled with tyrants and dictators. Let's not leave room...
Admit it -- You miss the??cold war. It was a roughly symmetrical duel, a face-off between two nuclear powers. The battle against terrorism is more like a free-for-all in a gladiator movie--spear vs. net, triton vs. tiger. We land our troops with guns. They board our trains with backpacks...