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...scope, which promises to expand the scene’s growing crossover appeal. Konono No.1 continues to sound the most familiar to western ears; the band’s beats and riffs are dense and quick-paced, introducing dissonance into supple vocals and generally submerging traditional melodies in a wash of sound that would be at home in any scenester dance club. Other bands on this album reflect varying degrees of similar fusion. On Masanka Sankayi’s track, electronic effects add a sheen of crackle to the singer’s voice, but it is ultimately the beat...

Author: By Catherine L. Tung, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Congotronics 2 | 2/23/2006 | See Source »

...been closer to Whittington than 30 yds., the figure in the sheriff's report. Some gun experts say from that distance, it would be unlikely that birdshot could penetrate Whittington's clothes and chest wall. Others agree with Jon Nordby, an analyst with Final Analysis Forensic of University Place, Wash., who says, "It is certainly possible, and I've seen it. I had a case where a BB went through a jacket at 90 ft. and through the pericardial sac and caused death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Shooting at the Ranch | 2/19/2006 | See Source »

...don’t usually wear underwear, because I wear pants, and I wash the pants,” he says...

Author: By Alexander J. Dubbs, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: On the Block: Dern's Skivvies | 2/8/2006 | See Source »

...petty tiffs of daily life. Take two teenage boys fighting over a girl at a bar. Boy number one takes boy number two aside and says, “I heard what you said about our president. You should be careful, ZANU-PF is a large party, and we wash out poisons like you.” Neither boy belongs to ZANU-PF—in fact, both probably hate the party—but boy number two will leave the club terrified and alone, while boy number one will get the girl. Thus, fear spreads...

Author: By Amar C. Bakshi | Title: Subdued Voices | 2/8/2006 | See Source »

Humor has been his armor throughout recovery. Sure, there was a lot of griping and yelling too, to hear him tell it. It started two weeks after the aborted scouting mission when a doctor at Madigan Army Medical Center at Fort Lewis, Wash., told him that both his legs would have to be amputated. "I wanted to throw a rock at him," says Braddock. He got a second opinion--an extra effort that saved one leg but not the other. Before he went into surgery, he painted a dotted line and scissors on the bad leg and wrote, "Cut here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Wounded Soldier Strives to Return | 2/5/2006 | See Source »

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