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The Very Best: A Band's Summer Escape With A Message

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Malawian singer Esau Mwamwaya and Swedish producer Johan Hugo met in a London thrift shop and soon became musical collaborators as The Very Best.

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Originally published on Fri August 3, 2012 8:45 am

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The high-tech pop intro to The Very Best's song "Kondaine" suggests a carefree summer party. There's Afropop uplift to the sound and Top 40 melodiousness to the vocal.

4:56 pm

Wed August 1, 2012

Famous For His Hates: The Cool, Witty Gore Vidal

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Gore Vidal arrives at the premiere of Alexander at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, Calif., on Nov. 16, 2004.

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Christopher Bram is the author of nine novels. His most recent book, Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America, was published in February.

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Chris Bram is the author of the novel Gods and Monsters.

Gore Vidal was famous for his hates: academia, presidents, whole portions of the American public and, most notably, Truman Capote. Yet he could be incredibly generous to other writer friends. He wrote beautiful, appreciative essays about Tennessee Williams and Dawn Powell.

He was a man of many facets and endless contradictions.

4:15 pm

Wed August 1, 2012

Romney Adviser Defends Candidate's Statements About Palestinian Culture

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Dan Senor, senior national security aide to Mitt Romney, speaks to the press en route to Israel from London on Saturday.

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Originally published on Sun August 5, 2012 12:05 pm

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A top foreign policy adviser to Mitt Romney on Wednesday defended statements the Republican presidential candidate made in Israel about the cultural differences between Israelis and Palestinians.

3:10 pm

Wed August 1, 2012

At Old Mine, Hopes Of Striking Gold With Dark Matter

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The LUX Dark Matter Detector is installed in the Davis Cavern of the Sanford Lab in South Dakota in March. The water tank measures 24 feet in diameter, is two stories high and will hold 71,600 gallons.

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Businessman and philanthropist T. Denny Sanford has pledged $70 million to the Sanford Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory. He stands next to a plaque dedicating the 4,850 foot level, where several experiments will be set up, in 2009.

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The entrance to the Sanford lab is through the Ross Shaft building of the old Homestake Mine in Lead, S.D.

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Originally published on Wed August 1, 2012 3:54 pm

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In Lead, S.D., a steel cage drops almost a mile below ground into the Sanford Underground Laboratory. It's formerly the deepest underground gold mine in North America, and when it closed a decade ago, state officials hoped that an underground science laboratory along with on-site university classes could spur economic development.

2:55 pm

Wed August 1, 2012

Translation Software For Music Makers

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Jace Clayton, a.k.a. DJ Rupture.

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Originally published on Tue September 18, 2012 5:25 pm

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