Word: warms
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This time of year, Yellowstone is a land of dramatic fire-and-ice contrasts, with hissing, boiling water heated in chambers far below shooting out clouds of steam over a subzero, snowy alpine landscape, where bison and elk find warm patches of open ground to browse. We who live here, it has been said, do so at the mercy of geology. In much of the West, with its long seismic faults and Yellowstone-centered hot spots, it is for humans a sublimely tenuous coexistence with the earth's fickle tectonic temperaments...
...textural complexity, klo:yuri is grounded in warm, intimate melodies worthy of a private salon (albeit one furnished with a laptop and a pair of keyboards). "Terra," its opener, kicks off with a frenzy of organic sounds - fast-swirling piano, skidding violin - before sliding into a further nine tracks. From the ludic raptures of "Feathers" to the slow-building threnody of "Cells That Smell Sounds" they span the spectrum of light and dark. The album's highlight comes in the form of "Null," a doozy of soaring strings, synths and syncopated percussion offset by strangely compelling counting in German, which...
Zimel was at the house on Saturday to greet Obama and his family as they arrived. "He's very pleasant and very gracious," says Zimel. "I started to call her Mrs. Obama, and she said 'call me Michelle.' A very warm family...
...take you in the hotel's Audi on a tour of the city, including the Hyde Park neighborhood, which the Obamas' called home, and Millennium Park, where Barack Obama acknowledged his election victory and where you can take a spin around the skating rink. Return to the hotel and warm up with hot chocolate in the Lobby Bar. While you sip, the concierge can make reservations at one of the Obamas' favorite restaurants, like Spiaggia, Sepia or MacArthur's. Go to sleep clutching a complimentary copy of Barack Obama's second book, The Audacity of Hope. Rates start...
Barack Obama's choice for education secretary, Chicago school chief Arne (Ar-NEE) Duncan, is getting a warm welcome from most factions of the education community. He's been, in many ways, an unconventional leader willing to find creative solutions to some of public education's oldest dilemmas, including school attendance and dropout rates. The 44-year-old will have a lot on his plate, if confirmed, including what to do with President Bush's much maligned No Child Left Behind policy and how to make college more affordable. (See Obama's other Cabinet picks...