Short songs with lots of mystery

When John Linnell and John Flansburgh were kids in Lincoln, Massachusetts, they used to love those cheap and cheerful TV ads for top-40 compilation records. Remember the K-tel pitch Twenty original artists, 20 original hits, with tiny grabs of each lined up to ring in your brain like rapid-fire sugar hits.

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A Great White Shark Has Been Spotted in Massachusetts

    Just in time for the influx of summer tourists to the popular Massachusetts beach, two great white sharks have been spotted off the coast of Cape Cod.   State fisheries officials say two of seven great white sharks that were tagged last summer off the Cape Cod coast have been detected via their transmitter […]

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How to Get Smarter, One Breath at a Time

At 4:30, when most of Wall Street is winding down, Walter Zimmermann begins a high-stakes, high-wire act conducted live before a paying audience. About 200 institutional investors—including airlines and oil companies—shell out up to $3,000 a month to catch his daily webcast on the volatile energy markets, a performance that can move hundreds of millions of dollars.

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