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...1950s, Lee "Scratch" Perry was a teenager fresh from the sugarcane fields, scooping up prizes with his energetic renditions of dances like the Yank and the Mashed Potato to the hottest boogie-woogie and R&B tracks newly washed in from the nearby U.S. Half a century later, the tide has turned - as it did in the '60s and '70s - and it's the rhythms of the Jamaican dancehall that are now storming the U.S. (and European) charts. Leading the charge are young guns like Sean Paul and Wayne Wonder, who are bending America's native hip-hop with...
...water comes in, the water goes out, propelled by the perpetual engine of the sun and moon. With 70% of the earth's surface covered by the restless tides and currents of the oceans, the idea of harnessing that movement to serve the planet's energy needs is too tempting to ignore. Since the Middle Ages people have built tidal mills, trapping an incoming tide in a storage pond to turn a wheel as the water ebbs. But the dream has always been to tap the power of the ocean itself - to harness the force of tides mighty enough...
Lafley, instead of focusing on researching new products, set out to build the company around its proven brands, such as Tide, Pamper, Crest and Bounty paper towels...
...wake of World War II, a tide of veterans returned from overseas and bloated Harvard’s admissions pool. For the first time, the College had significantly more applicants than it could accommodate, and the increase in numbers forced it to reconsider the approach to admissions—particularly how it weighted athletic and other extracurricular abilities...
...Democrats haven't scored many political points complaining about the president's landing on the deck of the U.S.S. Lincoln, but they see opportunity in what Bush said a few hours after he was out of his flight suit: "The tide has turned against al-Qaeda." Just a few days later, the terrorist group carried out coordinated attacks in Saudi Arabia and Morocco, the threat alert level was raised to orange and officials said the chatter among terrorists was as high as before September 11th. On cue, Dr. Ayman al Zawahiri, Osama Bin Laden's right hand man, issued...