Quite an achievement: the American director Todd Haynes revisits the world of London glam rock and manages to make it look dull.

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Show off other people's cutting-edge gadgets, talk about how Intel's microchips make them possible and wrap it all up in some rock music.

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Leaving this too long would make it impossible to build a spacecraft powerful enough to move the space rock out of harm's way.

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It makes sense that such a fervent rock band would make a jaw-droppingly beautiful album about pop culture, consumerism, cultural arrogance and other maladies typical of post-industrial society.

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As this is being written, massive outages in its service are spreading throughout the network, whose rock-solid reliability kept many IT leaders from being willing to make a switch.

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But popular groups not quite big enough to make the "Rock Band" playlist are also preparing material for the do-it-yourself upload store, including Creed and Evanescence, each of which has sold tens of millions of albums in the past decade.

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Available in several colors--including Dragon Jacquard, Burnt Adobe and Roasted Brown--it means college students can now rock out to their favorite tunes as they make their way across campus.

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Interpreting what to make of this cultural edge between eras, or even what to call it--bop? rock? pre-rock?

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It is an attempt to make banks less vulnerable to the kind of runs that shattered Northern Rock and Lehman Bros.

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It was from Fictionist, her son's rock 'n' roll band, and it was just what she needed to make it over the line.

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