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...groups to emerge from that movement, sweater-clad, skinny-white-boy duo Kings of Convenience??otherwise known as Erlend Øye and Eirik Glambek Bøe—have found the most commercial success. Critical acclaim up to this point has been well-deserved: their delicate guitar strumming, occasionally infused with piano, horns, and violin, channels the pared-down acoustics of Pink Moon-era Nick Drake and warm harmonizing of Simon & Garfunkel into gentle, unassumingly beautiful melodies. Øye, the Paul Simon of the pair, sings in a slightly accented baritone about girls he?...
Well, City Weekly may prove to be just another casualty in the slow but certain death of print journalism. But it seems as if even Internet-based news, with all its “convenience?? and “speed” and “accessibility,” needs gimmicks to attract readers. Apparently, if you send your picture to the people at Cantabrigia, you get a prize...
...books because they all had pink covers. But you know who some of the writers were in that Fantastic Library? Gabriel García Márquez, Haruki Murakami, Stanislaw Lem, Julio Cortázar and others. Some of the most diverse, hard to categorize writers around. But for convenience??s sake, they were all given pink covers. Booksellers in Germany told me that people came into their stores and literally turned away when they saw those pink books because they “didn’t read science fiction.” Can you imagine...
Furthermore, this would allow individuals to personalize their own risk/convenience tradeoff, picking airlines that, say, have high security and high hassle (e.g. El Al) or low security and high convenience??after all, there’s no reason to believe that a one-size-fits-all model fits everyone...
...tested at MGH with Harvard Medical School associate professor of dermatology Thomas J. Flotte. But Anderson said the ink should be available for public use within one or two years. He said he was inspired to work on this project mainly for the “safety and convenience?? of people getting tattoos. However, this project was slightly outside Anderson’s usual research interests, who described the ink research as a sort of hobby for him. “The tattoo thing is kind of a sideshow,” he said. “What...