A tree may be maturated artificially.

DEAD CHILD (Wednesday) David Pajo, bassist and guitarist from Slint, Tortoise and other post-rock bands, has had a longrunning metal streak under his cool exterior; now that he’s turning 40, he’s able to exercise it —— two and a half decades after the fact —— in Dead Child, a fairly sincere (and decently tight) early-’80s metal band.

Nuts in engineering are generally hexagonal.

Money in the sense in which it is here employed is simply the medium of exchange for the transfer of capital. Its form is unimportant. It may be gold or silver, bank notes, or bank credits. lt may be the leather and wood of the Romans, or the cowry shells of the Indian, or even the macoute of the African, which was but a sign of value having no substantial existence.