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Some more bizarre risk-taking that ends up paying off is Hatfield's employment of ultra hardcore bass grooves strongly reminiscent of the scary-intense work of shock-metal band Tool. On "Give Me Some Of That," Hatfield breaks out some heavy fuzz bass that will blow away anyone expecting sugary pop--or any pop at all. The newly-30 Hatfield makes it frighteningly easy to identify with her rage at the loss of youth: "If I had/half of what you had/I would be so/so fucking glad...
...reborn on earth to enlighten others. A cornucopia of Mahayana offshoots sprang up over the centuries. Zen, which was adopted by the Japanese samurai class, combined chanting and teacher-student dialogue with an extremely strict sitting meditation practice, often enforced with whacks from a ceremonial wand. As a tool toward faster enlightenment, Zen's Rinzai school had its students wrestle conundrums, or koans, such as the famous query "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" The late-blooming Soka Gakkai practice, favored by Tina Turner, is also nominally a Japanese Mahayana offshoot, although rather atypical in its teaching that...
...First, it more closely follows the class than Blinder, both in order and in sequence," he said, referring to the text that was formerly used in the class. "It's also more concise--[Baumol and Blinder] was not incredibly successful as a teaching tool...
...Verve Pipe 2. Mr. Serv-on 3. Tool 4. Le Click 5. Ginuwine 6. Prodigy 7. MindSpring 8. Infoasis 9. Drizzle 10. Panix...
...Brandt as he watches some of the program's participants progress from risk to clinical manifestation to full-blown illness to death. "You can't help being impressed by the human drama of it," he says. Indeed, the sharing of stories, both happy and dire, is often his best tool for compelling people to weigh seriously the pros and cons of testing. "Most people," he says, "resonate more to the stories than to the psychological tests and statistical results...