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Longwave’s two guitars charged, swirled, and dueled their way through the night, expertly navigating hairpin shifts in dynamic. The band’s opening salvo built jangling tension that broke out into simultaneous squalls over new-wave synths, ultimately evoking an up-tempo, slightly less morose Interpol...
Another participant, Sidney S. Cash, said he was touched by the “unbelievable character” of the director of the Banda Aceh hospital, who lost his entire family in the tidal wave, but returned to the devastated hospital the next day in hopes of helping his patients...
...There is a huge attrition rate in my generation,” Mori said. “From my generation down it seems fairly solid. Women are in the profession, working and keeping up with it. It’s just a matter of getting into another wave of a generation...
...Night has arrived at Harvard with a wave of acclamation more powerful than an exploding brewery tank of fine, smoked porter. In one fell swoop, it has solved a problem older than the dining hall sheet cake and tougher than the smoked duck. For years, Harvards social scene has been one of feast and famine. While upperclassmen gorged themselves on venues from Red Line to the occasional wildlife-themed, well-endowed social club, underclassmen were systematically denied their just deserts. Lokers resurrection has the potential to breathe life into a stratified Harvard social scene gripped by 300-year-long rigor...
...week swallowed Germany's Hexal and America's Eon Labs for $8.4 billion, forging them into its existing Sandoz unit to create the world's largest manufacturer of off-patent, copycat drugs. A slide in blockbuster drug approvals in recent years - combined with the expiration of patents protecting a wave of branded drugs introduced in the '80s - has helped make generics big business. Government encouragement of the sector means off-patent drugs account for more than half of the U.K. and U.S. markets by volume. Novartis CEO Daniel Vasella reckons the sector will be worth $100 billion...