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...seven albums over the course of a decade, lang has deployed her vocal versatility to impressive if not always winning effect--nimbly hopscotching between genres but also making it difficult to know just what you would get when you unwrapped one of her CDs. First came the loose-limbed country-and-western style of her early work like Angel with a Lariat, followed by the sleek pop-country phase epitomized in the album Ingenue and its smash single Constant Craving. Then, in recent releases such as All You Can Eat and Drag, she veered into torch songs and heavy ballads...
...want to spark a heated debate at a dinner party, bring up the topic of genetically modified foods. For many people, the concept of genetically altered, high-tech crop production raises all kinds of environmental, health, safety and ethical questions. Particularly in countries with long agrarian traditions--and vocal green lobbies--the idea seems against nature...
...your description of jobs that will disappear in this century, you listed stenographers (including court reporters and lots of secretaries). Whoa! Court reporters won't be replaced anytime soon, any more than fathers and mothers will be. There are too many vocal variables in courtrooms, depositions and live TV programming, not to mention foreign accents and the fast talkers of America. Until a machine can be trained to capture anyone all the time under a multitude of conditions, court reporters and stenographers will be needed. CARL SAUCEDA, PRESIDENT National Court Reporters Association Hayward, Calif...
...Plans for a modern art museum on the current site of the Mahoney's Garden Center also blundered along this year, meeting with vocal disapproval from area residents when tentative plans were presented at a community meeting...
...Muhammad said he was heartened by students' vocal concern but decided staying on would consume him emotionally...