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...prurient Zhou far more relishes (to our unending entertainment) relaying strange customs and fantastical tales he's encountered, like the Khmer women who urinate standing up ("and that is really funny"); the ceremonial, contracted deflowering of young girls by priests, which Zhou details in one of his longest passages; the stealing of human gall bladders; and the nine-headed serpent spirit that turns into a woman and with which the King must couple each night in a chamber at the top of the Phimeanakas (which is still standing). "If for a single night he stays away," Zhou tells...
...more sedated grace of the vintage “Sludgefeast.” The more extended pieces, “Said The People” and “I Don’t Want To Go There,” a combined 16 minutes and change and the longest of the band’s career, are hypnotic if a bit indulgent, bristling with Mascis’ enthusiasm for lengthy solo workouts that the fans will always welcome. Their weight is balanced nimbly with a handful of brisk, melodic pop songs among which are “There?...
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...longest-term study of its kind, researchers pitted two popular diets head to head - a low-fat American Heart Association-style diet and a carb-controlled Mediterranean diet, each combined with regular physical activity - in a population of overweight patients who had Type 2 diabetes...
Tuesday in Libya was slated to be a blowout party for Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, to mark the 40th anniversary of the bloodless coup that brought him to power. And it might have been, had the world's longest-serving ruler not been wrangling for nearly two weeks with British and U.S. officials over the rapturous homecoming of convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi after his release from a Scottish prison...