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...influence of blues isn’t immediately evident in the sound of Park’s music, but his background helps explain his affinity for it. His father was a blues guitarist, and Park grew up in a small mountain town where “there was a lot of time and space to think and play music,” he says. This abundance of relaxation and reflection shows through in the unaffected, folksy sound of his songs...
...Robert Millage, killing the first wolf in Idaho's inaugural hunt was a dubious honor. In May 2009, the gray wolf was taken off the list of endangered species for the Northern Rocky Mountain region, and debates between hunting advocates and wolf sympathizers raged in the months leading up to the start of hunting on the first of September...
History has taught Greeks to be skeptical of promises of rescue by foreign powers, and the trail of failed plans to help Greece deal with its mountain of debt over the past few months has done little to assuage those fears. So despite the news Sunday, April 11, of a European bailout-loan offer worth some $40 billion, with the possibility of $20 billion more from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Greeks are growing increasingly pessimistic about their future. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...golf fans still love him - maybe not the way you love a best friend or a golden retriever. They love him the way you love mountain peaks or the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Philosophers call it the Sublime, which you love because it takes your breath away...
...certainly wouldn't be the first time great powers have sparred over this land of lakes and rugged steppe, nestled in the shadow of the towering Tian Shan and Pamir mountain ranges. For centuries, it was part of the main Silk Road highway that connected China to the west; the ancient bazaar city of Osh to this day bears traces of its commercial past. In 751 A.D., near the modern day town of Talas - where it's reported anti-Bakiyev unrest first broke out on Apr. 6 - a vast army sent forth by the Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad defeated...