We didn't really have jocks because we weren't large enough, and we didn't really have a party culture because we were too nerdy for that.
The dance music world has been tuning in to Scandinavia for inspiration for decades, but as well as the playful cosmic disco of its biggest exports – Todd Terje, Lindstrøm, Prins Thomas and so on – the more recent wave of Norwegian jocks and producers stepping into the light has proven to be just as offbeat and ambitious.
It's like the netherwordly synthesis moment between nerds and jocks Hollywood never showed you.
The contrast with the starchy, stage-managed campaign visits (not to mention the staid, lobotomised annual party conferences) could hardly have been greater.Shock jocks North of the border, the leader of the Scottish Labour Party, Jim Murphy, called in a television debate last night for a moratorium on another independence referendum.
In mid-July the regulator announced that the station's licence would not be renewed when it expires at the end of this month.In this section Dinosaurs on the prowl again The price of re-election The purge of the shock jocks After the inferno Pinochet's tarnished coin Correction: Jorge Uribe ReprintsThat decision has stirred concerns across the country that free speech is in peril.
Radio shock jocks, such as Howard Stern and (the somewhat less famous) "Bubba the Love Sponge" have been muzzled, at least on Clear Channel, a radio giant that was roughed up in the scrap over the media rules.
In 2005 he achieved something that had eluded all his predecessors: the start of membership talks with the European Union.In this section Back to Iraq Erdogan on top Unseating the first horseman Europe's huddled masses Justice for jocks ReprintsYet there are reasons to worry about Mr Erdogan's ascendancy to Ankara's Cankaya palace.
Some 39m lives not to mention the countless dollars spent fighting the disease, and the countless more forgone by the decimation of many African countries' workforces would have been saved.In this section Back to Iraq Erdogan on top Unseating the first horseman Europe's huddled masses Justice for jocks ReprintsThe story of AIDS argues for tackling such potential plagues early.
So, although Dr Bozek and her colleagues did not actually compare individual people, when geeks refer to jocks in disparagingly simian terms they may have hit on an underlying reality.
The bottom line, Mr Anderegg reckons, is that American kids grow up knowing that "nerds are bad and jocks are good".
Even this understates the profitability of college sports, because the NCAA maintains an amateurism policy that caps athletes' compensation at the cost of their education.In this section Back to Iraq Erdogan on top Unseating the first horseman Europe's huddled masses Justice for jocks ReprintsTrading labour for a degree sounds fair.
