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...modest, but their performances have won a cult following. And they are not alone. Gypsy music is stirring audiences around the world. Top bands from Central Europe are playing upwards of 100 foreign gigs a year. Filmmakers are hungry for their scores. Critics have likened the outpouring to the birth of jazz in the U.S. in the 1920s. Says Simon Broughton, co-editor of The Rough Guide to World Music: "The music does what music should do. It tears at your heartstrings and gets your blood racing." This summer Taraf de Haïdouks is moving on to the International...
Despite the high level of student and faculty support that heralded its birth, the department had never really been able to establish a firm footing within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences since its creation...
...have no idea what his long term plans are, but I hope he never retires. He is extraordinarily vibrant, active, and energetic, and I still don’t believe he is 74,” Graage says. “I think someone switched birth certificates, and that he is actually 15 years younger...
...think the biggest moment of my life was the birth of my first-born,” he says...
...While not as risky as once thought, marriage among first cousins nearly doubles the chances of birth defects. Reminders of the potential dangers fill neighborhoods just a few miles from Liu's village of Nanliang. In the roadside hamlet of Chenzhuangke, a first-cousin couple grieve for their young son who died of a rare blood disease. In the nearby city of Yan'an, a brother and sister squat in the mud-brick slums, signing a secret language to each other. Both Cao Shuai and Cao Jing were born deaf-mute. Everybody in the neighborhood thinks they know why: their...