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Country-Rock Assembly of Dust Some Assembly Required Missing Piece/Rock Ridge Music ESSENTIAL “Arc of the Sun’’ Assembly of Dust headlines the Paradise Rock Club on Sept. 24. Call this a case of high ambition. But it’s a fully realized ambition in the hands of Reid Genauer, the former singer of Vermont’s Strangefolk who now fronts the even more versatile Assembly of Dust. He has a hauntingly cosmic voice that falls somewhere between Neil Young and Jeff Tweedy, while his lyrics recall the trippy Robert Hunter of Grateful Dead fame.

Nepal's government wants the repeatedly extended Constituent Assembly to get yet another three months to finish writing the Himalayan nation's constitution, and even members of the ruling parties are crying foul. The assembly was elected in 2008 and was supposed to finish the job in two years, but its deadline has been pushed back repeatedly. The current deadline expires Sunday. Law Minister Krishna Sitaula said a proposal to extend the assembly's tenure was registered at the assembly Tuesday night after an emergency meeting of the Cabinet.

Celtics mascot Lucky , whose daytime identity remains a mystery (perhaps he really is just an aerodynamic leprechaun who lives in Boston?), got some air time at Northeastern University on Thursday as part of the Celtics "Stay in School" assembly honoring middle schoolers with perfect attendance and high achievement in arts and writing.

The following recalls have been announced: ––— CLIP-ON DESK LAMPS DETAILS: LED Clip-On Desk Lamps imported by L G Sourcing Inc. of North Wilkesboro, N.C., and manufactured by He Shan Lide of China; sold exclusively at Lowe's stores nationwide from May 2011 to December 2011. The pink and blue plastic LED desk lamps have a flexible metal neck approximately 12" long and a clamp at the base. The power cord has a silver label attached to it. On one side of the label "MET," "Electrical Safety," "E113152" and "Apr.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has warned of the potential that new gene assembly technology could be used by terrorist to create biological weapons. Clinton says the emerging gene synthesis industry offers benefits to researchers "but it could also potentially be used to assemble the components of a deadly organism. " The U.S. government has cited efforts by terror groups like al-Qaeda to develop biological weapons as a national security concern. Clinton spoke Wednesday at meeting in Geneva aimed at reviewing the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention.

IF DYSFUNCTIONAL American politics has become an obstacle to meaningful social introspection, how does this nation reckon with its grave problems? Only indirectly. Some struggles are too deep for words, and can be grappled with more by implication and sublimation than by confrontation. The entertainment we choose provides a better window into our real anxieties than our public dialogue does, even - or maybe especially - when the stakes are high. In September of 1990, for example, the nation was at the terrifying threshold of major war. The previous month had seen the launching of Operation...

The following recalls have been announced: ––— CLIP-ON DESK LAMPS DETAILS: LED Clip-On Desk Lamps imported by L G Sourcing Inc. of North Wilkesboro, N.C., and manufactured by He Shan Lide of China; sold exclusively at Lowe's stores nationwide from May 2011 to December 2011. The pink and blue plastic LED desk lamps have a flexible metal neck approximately 12" long and a clamp at the base. The power cord has a silver label attached to it. On one side of the label "MET," "Electrical Safety," "E113152" and "Apr.

Boeing Co. has dedicated its South Carolina factory that will make interior parts for its new 787 jetliners that are being assembled nearby. The 300,000-square-foot Interiors Responsibility Center will make such things as stowing bins, closets, partitions, overhead rests and video control stations. It was officially opened on Thursday. The first group of interior components will be delivered to the assembly plant last year. The $750 million aircraft assembly plant opened earlier this year, the largest single industrial investment in state history.

The Air Force has given Lockheed Martin a $238 million contract to build the third and fourth satellites in the next generation of the Global Positioning System, called GPS III. The contract was announced last week. The Bethesda, Md.-based company already has a $1.5 billion contract to build a prototype of the new satellites and the first two flight versions. Assembly of the first four flight versions will be done at Lockheed Martin's Waterton Canyon facility south of Denver.

A secular party in Algeria has announced it will boycott elections in May. Rally for Culture and Democracy party chief Said Saadi said Friday the elections would be a "hoax" and the assembly chosen could just be dissolved by the new president set to be elected in 2014. The party's power base is the ethnically Berber Tizi-Ouzou region east of the capital. It boycotted elections in 2002, but ran in 2007, gaining 19 seats in the 390-person assembly and 3.36 percent of the vote.

Now that they've saved the world on film, "The Avengers" are teaming up for a motion-control video game. Ubisoft Entertainment announced a partnership Thursday with Marvel Entertainment to create a game based on the popular Marvel superhero posse. The game will be titled "Marvel Avengers: Battle for Earth" and will be released for both the upcoming Wii U console from Nintendo Co. and the camera-based Kinect system for the Xbox 360 from Microsoft Corp. "The idea that we're making a motion-control version of 'The Avengers' is a unique proposition if you compare that to superhero...

Touting the start of a new era in Somerville, local and state officials broke ground last week at Assembly Row, the complex of stores and apartments that planners say will transform a long-disused industrial space into a bustling neighborhood. When completed in 2014, the complex will hold 2,050 units of housing, a 200-room hotel, shops, a movie theater, and an Orange Line T station. The first phase of construction will raise the 195-unit Avalon at Assembly Row building. At a dusty news conference held at the heart of the 45-acre site, where crews already...

Courtesy City of Somerville Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone, center, flanked by state officials and the private development team that spent two decades planning the Assembly Row complex. By Matt Byrne, Town Correspondent Touting the beginning of a new era in Somerville, local and state officials broke ground Monday at Assembly Row, the complex of stores and apartments that planners say will transform a long-disused industrial space into a bustling neighborhood.

Ford Motor Co. plans to build a $760 million auto assembly plant in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou, part of a doubling of its production capacity in the world's biggest vehicle market as it strives to catch up with rivals. The investment in the factory with joint-venture partner Changan Ford Mazda Automobile Limited will add annual capacity of 250,000 vehicles when it begins operations in early 2015, the company said Thursday. Along with a recently announced new plant in Ford's main production base in Chongqing, in central China,...

After years of planning and discussion, the massive Assembly Row complex in Somerville has entered a new phase as developers started construction Wednesday on the first two buildings of the $1.5 billion project. The apartment buildings by AvalonBay Communities Inc. will have 448 rental units, and at 470,000 square feet is one of the largest residential real estate projects under construction in the Boston area, according to the developers. One of the two buildings will be an "AVA" residence - AvalonBay's newest apartment brand that was...

Chinese workers who often spend more than 60 hours per week assembling iPhones and iPads will have their overtime hours curbed and their pay increased after a labor auditor hired by Apple Inc. inspected their factories. The Fair Labor Association says Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., the Taiwanese company also known as Foxconn that runs the factories in China, is committing to a reduction of weekly work time to 49 hours, the legal Chinese maximum. That limit is routinely ignored in factories throughout China.

SCRAPPY, YOUNG WEB START-UPS making apps for iPhones may be the darlings of the tech world, but enterprise software companies remain kings of the innovation economy in Massachusetts. And Parametric Technology Corp., a 27-year-old Needham company, is at the top of that heap. A pioneer of computer-aided design software for engineers, PTC - as it prefers to be known - has in the last few years pushed into new areas of manufacturing. The company's products help make sophisticated devices like smartphones smarter, but it's also behind a whole different class of household...

M ost of us don't go around obsessing about the Seven Deadly Sins — most of us probably couldn't name them — but the transgressions defined during early Christian times still cross our consciousness on a regular basis. Who hasn't worried about eating too much, or been distressed by someone else's anger. Turns out, these "sins" are often the subjects of scientific study, albeit indirectly. Researchers gathered at the MIT Museum last month to describe work they've conducted relevant to the deadly seven, as part of the Cambridge Science Festival.

An attempt to allow Prince George's County lawmakers to impose a 5-cent fee on disposable shopping bags has died in Maryland's General Assembly. The bill fell one vote short of a majority in the House Environmental Matters Committee on Saturday. It had been supported by Prince George's County Executive Rushern Baker, the county Council and a majority of the county's delegates and senators. The bill would have given the county the authority to charge shoppers 5 cents for each disposable plastic or paper bag. Opponents questioned the cost of the fee and whether the measure would do...

Back in 1993, when the popular novelist Anne Lamott published "Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year," the book felt like a revelation. Here at last was a woman willing to confess to the dank underside of motherhood, the days of rage and confusion that accompany every bundle of joy. That Lamott was a 35-year-old single mom with a colicky son and a gift for irreverence in the face of turmoil only made her memoir that much more compelling. Lamott's newest book, "Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son's First Son" has the feel of a sequel that can't hope to match the...