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...date - with or without its resident guitar slinger. Despite the new breakthrough, Albarn says, "I don't mind if I'm still called Britpop. We are British and we are popular. It's actually quite an apt description." The band had recently pursued side-projects, notably Albarn's virtual dub band Gorillaz, which sold 5 million albums and allowed him to collaborate with an international mix of musicians. Some influences naturally stuck. "You can't help but move on from whatever point you last made music," says Albarn. "It maybe came out more than it would have done if Graham...
...country outside of the capital under the de facto control of a patchwork of often feuding warlords whose links to Kabul are often tenuous and many of whom have reverted to extortion, drug production and other illicit revenue streams. Even in Kabul itself, Karzai finds himself a virtual prisoner in the palace, guarded by U.S. personnel because the Northern Alliance troops of his defense minister, General Mohammed Fahim, may not be sufficiently trusted with Karzai's life. Fahim, of course, is quite happy for the affable Pashtun president in the coat of many colors to be the international face...
Meanwhile, top virologists in the U.S., Canada, Hong Kong, Germany and several other nations have linked up to create a sort of virtual research lab. Their goal: to understand the virus itself. They identified the SARS virus several weeks ago, and now they are trying to come up with diagnostic tests. That's crucial. Early SARS cases present the same fevers, muscle aches and diarrhea as flu victims, and without a way to distinguish between them, the public-health system could be quickly overwhelmed...
...virtual lab and independent biotech companies have already come up with several tests, but they are not yet reliable enough to be widely deployed. Canadian microbiologists reported last week that as many as 40% of their SARS patients did not test positive for coronavirus. That might be because their tests are not sufficiently sensitive or, even more worrisome, because the coronavirus has mutated enough to elude detection...
Think of the Idolettes as a virtual U.S.O. show for a time of war and anxiety. They're patriotic (plenty of praise for America in general and the troops in particular). They're full of up-by-the-bootstraps stories. They're old-fashioned (offering something for Grandma and the kids in the age of niche audiences) but in a 21st century, ethnically diverse way. There may be no better embodiment of the Bush Zeitgeist than Nashville Star's John Arthur Martinez, a Latino cowboy who sings odes to marital love, laced with Spanish. There are, too, numerous invocations...