Word: unforeseens
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With three turntables and a mixer, /rupture communicates through layered grooves. An ideal selector who skirts boundaries rather than being confined within them, he builds bridges between musical cultures as only a good DJ can, articulating forgotten connections while suggesting unforeseen ones. Beats from Kingston to Brooklyn engage with seminal musique concrète; rap, ragga and spoken word are given equal voice. As dance music becomes increasingly sanitized, conveniently packaged and endlessly regurgitated for the consumer, DJ /rupture provides a slap in the face, reminding us why this music was important in the first place...
...finally found--although they didn't know it at the time--was not a path between the oceans but a story whose power to challenge and absorb would bridge the more profound gap between their day and ours, between that age of new possibilities glimpsed and this one of unforeseen upheavals survived. By the time President Jefferson sent the captains up that muddy river and out of sight, the young nation already had a Constitution, but it lacked an epic. It had a government but no real identity. Lewis and Clark helped invent...
Pedersen acknowledged yesterday that there will be unforeseen consequences to the changes, which is why she the new policy has built into it a recommendation that it be reviewed within five years of its implementation...
...America's vaunted medical research system. They are its primary mechanism for testing potential drugs and separating the ones that work from the ones that are useless or actively harmful. Yet the very nature of human testing involves risk; nobody can tell in advance whether a new medicine carries unforeseen dangers. And so clinicians are forced to walk an ethical and scientific tightrope. Make the rules protecting patients too lax, and subjects will suffer and even die needlessly. Make them too strict, and lifesaving medications won't make it out of the lab quickly enough to help the people...
...Sometimes we encounter unforeseen circumstances, like soil conditions, building conditions in renovations or mitigation costs,” writes Kathy A. Spiegelman, Harvard’s associate vice president for planning and real estate, in an e-mail...