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Back in their Drive In days, the guys wrote self-contained songs, mostly some variant of verse-chorus-verse, with discernible beginnings and ends. With the Mars Volta, at least so far, they have committed themselves to the idea of the album as one entity; both this album and De-Loused are said to be concept albums loosely based on experiences that occurred in the lives of former friends...

Author: By Amos Barshad, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New Music: Frances the Mute | 3/3/2005 | See Source »

...menu selections and the pencil, and then stand blocking the entire counter while he muses over the relative benefits of a cheeseburger or a tofu burger (go with the cheeseburger) or takes more than two seconds to mark which food he wants. An even more rare and destructive variant of the Grill Debater is Grillus Debatus Mistakus, who has the audacity to go back and correct his order or fix a possible spelling error in his name. Hey, I know people who’ve signed their sheets with “Beethoven...

Author: By Andrew L. Kreicher, THE CRIMSON STAFF | Title: Cardinal Sins of the Dining Hall | 2/7/2005 | See Source »

Currently, there is no cure for HSV-2, the sexually transmitted variant, which affects about one out of every five Americans over the age of 12. Knipe’s vaccine targets HSV-2, which is also responsible for oral herpes, or cold sores...

Author: By Anne E. Bensson, CONTRIBUTNG WRITER | Title: Prof Finds Herpes Vaccine | 1/21/2005 | See Source »

When Jonathan Simms was 17, doctors thought he had 14 months to live. The Belfast teen was exhibiting the first symptoms of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (VCJD), the human version of mad cow disease, and there could only be one prognosis. But three years later, his condition is no longer considered terminal. Thanks to a controversial new therapy, he may become the first known survivor of a disease that has killed 147 Britons since 1995. After the diagnosis, Simms' father Don read about the use of an anticoagulant called pentosan polysulphate (PPS) to delay the onset of scrapie, a disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Risking All For A Cure | 12/19/2004 | See Source »

Elmo dolls always balance on the fine line between genius and insanity. This year he spells his name with big-arm gestures to a variant of the Village People's classic YMCA. fisher-price.com...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coolest Inventions 2004: Playtime | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

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