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...casually chosen word. "We're influenced by so many things that we're able to balance and combine everything," says 23-year-old vocalist and keyboard player Armi Millare. "We would get bored if we got stuck within a certain style." She, along with guitarist Carlos Tañada, 25, bassist Paul Yap, 25, and drummer Ean Mayor, 23, cite eclectic musical reference points, from the fey electronica of Zero 7 to the studied cool of David Sylvian. It makes for music that manages to be both thoughtful and sensual. "A band like this doesn't come around more than...
...global benevolent despot, you'd say this is all to the good," Barbera notes. But if you are stuck with an ARM that's about to reset or have been relying on home-equity loans to make ends meet, you may be in trouble. And if you work for a business like Home Depot that depends on consumer spending, you may be in trouble...
...July issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, researchers analyzed data from the Shanghai Breast Cancer Study and found that postmenopausal Asian women who had adopted more Western-style diets - high in red meat, bread, desserts and candy - had a two times greater risk of breast cancer than peers who stuck with traditional Asian diets consisting of vegetables, soy and fish. A separate study of 50,000 postmenopausal women, published in the current British Journal of Cancer, found that women who ate a quarter of a grapefruit or more a day were up to 30% more likely to develop breast cancer...
...terrorism: the dapper, pipe-smoking, sleuth whose doggedness and efficiency hunting terror masterminds forced him to pack a Magnum to fend off attacks on his own life. (In recent years, he's swapped the gun for round-the-clock bodyguards, although the nickname it earned him, "The Sheriff," has stuck.) He was known as a hands-on investigator who would literally picked through wreckage of a downed airliner, or rent a boat to enter Libya to investigate the agents he accused of blowing it up. And in 1996, Bruguiere arranged the arrest and extradition of notorious terrorist "Carlos the Jackal...
...just rejecting the inevitable boors and slouches. More often, women speak of affairs that lasted for months, if not years, with men they in many ways loved. But after much turmoil and tears, they ended things, deciding that being on their own was simply better than the alternative--being stuck with a man, and in a marriage, that didn't feel right...