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POPS"Generation Kill" brings the Iraq war to the TV viewer From the producers of "The Wire" With its $550 billion budget and 1.5 million troops, the military might seem a mechanized colossus of precision-guided violence, give or take a few bad apples and errant artillery shells. But if you have served in the military or written about it from the inside, you know that on the unit level it is filled with men and women of vastly different motivations and skills. The Marines in Generation Kill are intelligent and dimwitted, panicked, sensitive, racist, comic, homicidal, brave. It is a wonder when things go according to plan. "You know what happens when you get out of the Marine Corps?" says one of the characters. "You get your brains back."
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POPS2001 Stars of internet,where they now? We’ve been tracking internet activity for a while. Long enough, in fact, to look back now and find some really cool stuff. The table below shows the largest 50 sites circa August 2001, based on monthly attention. More importantly, it also shows how that attention share has shifted since. Analysis at http://readthisurl.com/compete+trends Source- http://blog.compete.com/
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POPSChimps keep busy to control urges In addition; In a third part of the experiment, the chimpanzees had access to the toys, but the candy dispenser released the treats into a container beyond their grasp. In this scenario, the animals played with the toys for only about five minutes. By comparison, when the chimps did have access to the candy, they entertained themselves with the toys for seven minutes, on average. This suggests to Evans that the chimps actively used the toys as a way to bide their time and were not simply passively distracted by the play items.
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POPSKalu James - You're Beautiful This is what Daniel Ball, Jr has to say about Kalu: The voice of Kalu James will linger in you, compel you and make you care. Hailing from Nigeria, Africa, Kalu James brings to the table emotive, genuine lyrics with his remarkably epic, unique and unforgettable style of vocal delivery. Touching on delicate subjects with eloquence and vivid imagery like in his politically charged song "Mr. Majestic" , where Kalu illustrates the necessity of ending violence ("we can't go on dropping bombs like they are skittles and m&m's all over the world"… )- and "Freedom" , then easily changing it up to bring us to the places of love and tenderness with songs like "Fallin' In Love With You" and "You are Beautiful" , a stirring homage to the people of his native land. Kalu James will capture you, challenge you and change you.