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...five-man outfit from Sacramento, Calif., presents listeners with a dichotomous sound typical of their previous work; from one track to the next, and even within the tracks themselves, lead singer Chino Moreno and his bandmates switch back and forth between heavily distorted hard rock intensity and near-electronic blissfulness. This being so, no matter what your music tastes are, you will likely enjoy half of this album...
...whole film reeks ever so slightly of this sort of bait and switch; the viewer, ignorant of how many Americans Borat interviewed before finding his tidbits of intolerance, is meant by implication to accept that his mockumentary is some sort of representative sample...
...numbers that identify women’s clothing sizes but do not correspond to any actual part of a woman’s body. Obviously, wearing a size two does not mean that one’s waist is two inches in circumference. Instead, clothing companies should make the switch to the practices of men’s sizes—base the numbers on waist and height measurements. That way, women will have a consistent, concrete basis through which to understand their sizes. Additionally, before getting any bright ideas about aspiring to a size “subzero...
...health care. One immediate change has been a move away from fixed co-payments for such medical expenses as doctor visits and prescription drugs. That's being supplanted by coinsurance, under which the covered person pays a percentage of the expense. Nearly half of companies will have made the switch by next year. "The idea is to get employees to think before heading to the doctor for a cold," says Columbia University professor of health management Sherry Glied, "to shop around a little for the best price...
...stops? The U.S. official says the first switch was probably a handoff to a second group, which would hold him and claim the ransom. "It's not unusual for more than one group to be involved," says the official. "As in any organized business, there's specialization. Some gangs do the snatching and then pass on their captive, for a fee, to another gang." The money changing hands at this stage may be no more than a few hundred dollars; the muffled conversation Waddah heard at the first house may have been a quick round of bargaining...