Word: tracee
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...Franz Ferdinand (who cribbed them from Lou Reed and Television and so on), and the band's ska rhythms and martial drums come courtesy of the Clash. But singer-guitarist Alex Turner, guitarist Jamie Cook, drummer Matt Helders and bassist Andy Nicholson play with a swagger that obliterates any trace of ancestor worship. They aren't referencing anything as they fly through tunes like The View from the Afternoon; they're just playing as many hooks as possible, as fast and as cleanly as they...
...Kari Stefansson can trace his ancestry back 1,100 years. That's almost unheard of in the U.S., but in his native Iceland, where genealogy is a national obsession, it hardly raises an eyebrow. The island nation is a genetic anomaly: settled by a few Norsemen and Celts in the 9th century A.D. and relatively free of later immigration, it is among the most genetically homogeneous countries on earth. And in the late 1990s, when scientists were racing to map the human genome, Stefansson realized that Iceland's genetic isolation and unrivaled genealogical records made it a potential gold mine...
...four-hour series, part one of which aired yesterday, chronicles the quests of Gates, talk show host Oprah Winfrey, actress Whoopi Goldberg, astronaut Mae Jemison, musician Quincy Jones, televangelist T.D. Jakes, neurosurgeon Ben Carson, and fellow Harvard professor Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot as they trace their family trees all the way back to Africa...
...small canoe to fish in the river, the same reptile appeared again. Barry, 60, tried to push away the 4-m-long crocodile with an oar, but it seized his arm, capsizing the canoe. Glenda was able to swim to the bank, but her husband vanished without trace...
...Many trace the erosion of trust back to the counterculture 1960s with its clarion call, "Never trust anyone over 30." But Kate Watts, a London-based marketing expert, says a turning point in the deference offered to those in traditional positions of authority could have come as early as World War I, with its senseless slaughter of a generation of European men. She quotes two lines of a poem by Rudyard Kipling: "If any question why we died,/ Tell them, because our fathers lied." Whatever its roots, today's disdain has implications for companies beyond their corporate image. Watts points...