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...Smashing Pumpkins . Siamese Dream (Virgin). Pearl Jam, Nirvana and other alternative bands released first-rate albums in '93; this co-ed group stood out because it dared criticize the sometimes pretentious nature of the alternative world itself. Cool albums tend to date as quickly as milk in a convenience store; Siamese remains compelling after repeated listening...
...tone and preoccupations in contrast to the wider world of straight lit.From a purely mercenary perspective, Hollinghurst’s self-labeling as a “Gay Writer” makes good business sense–when his work is criticized, supporters of gay writing as an institution tend to rally to his aid. When Section 28, a British law (now repealed) forbidding promotion of homosexuality by public authorities, threatened to bar his debut novel “The Swimming Pool Library” (1988) from libraries, its sales only grew. Similar counterattacks followed a review by John Updike...
...doubt about it, West has a penchant for populism, and he seems to carry none of the ivory tower pretensions some of his colleagues tend to champion...
...researcher at University of California, Irvine who earned his Ph.D. at Harvard—recently conducted a study of about 400 UC students that found darkness “correlated positively with bulimic behavior in restrained eaters.” In the dark, he found, these people tend to binge more than purge. Kasof says that dim light might not be the only cause of seasonal changes in binge eating. The study references a prior report that found a relation between overeating and seasonal change. “It was well done, and it found amazingly high correlations between...
...that part of the challenge of disaster relief efforts is documenting where help is going. RISE-PAK addresses that by aiming to keep track of where help has been sent and where it is still needed, Khwaja said. Khwaja added that in the wake of a disaster, relief efforts tend to be somewhat disorganized. “It is like a dartboard. If you blindly throw all the darts at once, you might miss something,” he said. “It doesn’t work.” “You might...