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...nudity, osculation between band members, and nearly every bodily fluid imaginable—it’s not surprising that the Black Lips might find it difficult to convey that same intensity on a studio album. On the band’s latest release, “200 Million Thousand,” they try desperately to be as defiant and rebellious as ever, but what emerges is a stale form of the eccentric garage punk they’ve produced in the past. However, when the band stops trying to force this sense of free-spiritedness and opts instead...
...advocates, international bat expert Merlin Tuttle, founder of Bat Conservation International, says that's the best way to handle vampires. The problem, Tuttle says, is when people - motivated by fear, ignorance or both - target all bats for extermination by dynamiting caves, which causes enormous environmental damage and often kills thousand of beneficial bats that eat insects, pollinate flowers and even disperse seeds as part of natural reforestation. Blood feeders, on the other hand, are extremely rare - only three out of 1,100 species of bat are vampires, and all are found in Mexico, the Caribbean and Central and South America...
...recession. “People just aren’t buying and consumer confidence is down, although you don’t need me to tell you any of this,” Orazine said. According to Orazine, daily revenue used to average around two or three thousand a day in the shop’s earlier months. “Compared with a couple of years ago, we’d be lucky if we could make 500 or 600 dollars a day now,” he added. Orazine also said that while the store had previously been...
...days after the Academy Awards ceremony in Hollywood, at least a thousand people lined up at movie theaters in Tokyo's Marunouchi district to see the film for which director Yojiro Takita brought home an Oscar. Departures (Okuribito) is the comical and dramatic story of an unemployed cellist who finds work cleaning and preparing the deceased for burial. The film has already grossed more than $34 million in Japan since its September 2008 release. (The film is scheduled for limited released in the U.S. in May.) Sales of Aoki's novel, on which the film is based, have spiked, along...
...Speaking to Interior Department employees after his investigation uncovered impropriety at the Minerals Management Department: "I want to make sure they understand that I believe in the integrity of 99.9 percent of the 70-odd thousand people who work in this department. There have been a few bad apples. My frustration is the way the department has dealt with those few." (Federal Times...