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...drums, once added, never disappear entirely, so the song has a more natural consistency than others on the album. “Murs Beat” is “The Third Hand” at its most experimental, as the drums and any trace of hip-hop vanish in the middle of the song and are replaced by Gregorian chant-like vocals. On the whole, the shorter cuts—“Someday” and “Laws of the Gods”—are the weakest ones, largely because they seem like unfinished...

Author: By Anjali Motgi, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: RJD2 | 3/8/2007 | See Source »

...reached at a New York City number one minute and L.A. the next, or small-town Alabama, where you really live. If the person dialing one of the numbers turns out to be a less than desirable caller, poof! the number disappears with a few keystrokes. "You can vanish without a trace," said Geoff Schneider, executive vice president of Vumber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Internet Dating 2.0 | 1/19/2007 | See Source »

...instrument or struggling to create, a mind or will, clearly separate, hovers under the machinery, forcing it toward a goal. It's wonderful to see, such tangible evidence of that fine thing's power over the mere clumps of particles that, however pretty, will eventually clump differently and vanish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Brain: The Power of Hope | 1/19/2007 | See Source »

...This system would also end the inequitable distribution of dining costs. Under the current system, the most popular dinner foods often vanish by 6:30 p.m., leaving late eaters at an unfair disadvantage. Under a “privatized” HUDS system, students who want to hoard three dozen cookies will be forced to pay for their consumption. More likely, they will choose not to consume so many. Thus, those who truly value cookies will be able to get them, while those who simply want to abuse their access to the common food resources will be dissuaded...

Author: By Nikhil G. Mathews | Title: Capitalism for Dinner | 11/28/2006 | See Source »

...Americans' whereabouts. Gunfire often follows. Typically militia fighters will fire a volley of shots at a checkpoint manned by Iraqi security forces near a U.S. patrol. They may linger to fire a few more shots at U.S. troops arriving in the big green Stryker vehicles, but then they usually vanish. Like the killers who brought down the U.S. informant, the gunmen are seldom identified. But U.S. troops patrolling Washash assume they are Mahdi Army fighters operating with approval from higher-ups in the organization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. and Sadr's Army Look Set to Clash | 10/30/2006 | See Source »

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