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...anybody did anything, Elvis did everything." He certainly knew his job - all of them. He was also a fine instinctive musician, a fast study with a gift for synthesizing what he'd heard into his own style. "He sucked up influences like litmus paper," writes Peter Guralnick in "Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley," the first book in a meticulous two-volume biography. "He was SERIOUS about his work. Whenever [Elvis' first manager Bob] Neal went by the house, he found him with a stack of records - Ray Charles and Big Joe Turner and Big Mama Thornton...
...Williamsburg: Worried that your kids think you're getting a bit, well, old? Hop the L train to Brooklyn. Stroll through the concrete maze of Williamsburg's industrial chic neighborhoods and take in the native culture, a bizarre mix of second-generation immigrants and would-be artists/DJ's/depressives who just couldn't stomach the gentrification of the East Village (they were bringing in supermarkets...
...Numbers 418 kilometers per hour was the top speed achieved by Shanghai's "magnetic levitation" train during its maiden run between the city and Pudong airport last week...
...Resolving the conflict could save lives. Ten years ago, Hindu fundamentalists destroyed the mosque to build a new temple. In the violence that followed, at least 2,000 people were killed. The death toll spiked again last year when a Muslim mob torched a train carrying Hindu volunteers working on the temple's reconstruction, setting off a new round of reprisal attacks. Still, a judicial decision won't satisfy everyone. Hindu fundamen-talists say no court has jurisdiction over matters of faith. As long as ownership remains a religious issue, not a legal one, the holy war will rage...
...train with Dave all the time and he’s a hard worker, so I’m never surprised when he puts a good time on the board,” Shevchik said...