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...best, he never had to scramble or speed up his delivery in order to impress you. Instead, he slowed it down, enunciated every single word, and inserted terrifying post-rhyme silences that let you mull over the significance of his verses. This song finds him running this trick into the ground, as the audio equivalent of the gangsta stare becomes the stubborn old-man pause. If Cube and Chuck D were to get together again in 2008, the result would not be “Burn Hollywood Burn” or “Endangered Species?...
...next "glocalization" trick: exporting Taco Bell, its top brand in the U.S., to Mexico. In late October, a Taco Bell headed for the border and to a Mexican suburb, its grand opening attended by government officials and hordes of press. Diners flocked to the restaurant, located in a busy shopping plaza in Monterrey, though many seemed bemused by the offerings. Claudia and Ignacio Sosa dropped in with their toddler Fatima after a trip to the supermarket. "This is not tacos or burritos or quesadillas, even though they're called that," says Claudia. "We have never had a taco with rice...
...know we can execute a lot better than we did—certainly get more pucks offensively to the net in the third period.”But the Knights’ Steve Zalewski owned the third period, recording a hat trick. He both snapped a 1-1 tie with a wrap-around score 6:35 into the period and later put Clarkson ahead for good with only 3:16 remaining. In the closing five minutes, as both teams skated in a fierce back-and-forth struggle to break the 2-2 deadlock, Zalewski beat sophomore goalie Kyle Richter...
...TREIMA's real trick is its ability to run visual searches, too. If the police are lucky enough to have a picture of the item, the database will use image-recognition software to look for a match. To demonstrate, Boyer clicks on a JPEG of a sculpture of three cherubs that was stolen from a church a few years ago, then drags it into TREIMA. Almost instantly, the software finds a match with another photo of the same sculpture, taken from a different angle, in different light. "It's incredible," Boyer marvels...
...It’s strange being on a different schedule,” Cahow said. Harvard is one of only two ECAC teams, along with Princeton, to take finals after Christmas break. But the captain, fresh off her first career hat trick against Boston College, remains optimistic...