[…]Alvin ambles surefootedly through a musician's gallery of Americana, calling our attention to songs like Someone Stole Gabriel's Horn and Brother, Can You Spare a Dime.

The political resurgence of Islamic fundamentalist parties in Middle Eastern countries (the Welfare Party in Turkey), the unions in India and unemployment in China are all signs that left-behinds are starting to challenge the winners.

We might think, for example, about tele- (or remote) surgery, a technique that, now more than ever before, is enabling surgeons around the world to operate using haptic interfaces that control robotic systems located at different locations.

[…] two poems combine tetrameters with trimeters, and two others tetrameters with bimeters.