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Adele is a 22-year-old woman from London whose voice sounds as if it's being yanked out of her chest through the throat of someone much older; someone shouldering more painful stories and a far larger chest cavity. She says that both of her albums — 2008's 19, for which she won Best New Artist at the Grammys, and this one, 21 — are about boys, two different ones. The stories she tells about them are average, familiar, normal. The voice she uses to tell them is a force of nature.

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Police in Youngtown, Ohio, are looking for two suspects in a shooting at a fraternity party that killed one person and injured 11 others.

Police now say they have leads on two people they believe opened fire on the Omega Psi Phi fraternity house off the Youngstown State University campus at about 4 a.m.

Jamail Johnson, a 25-year-old senior, was shot dead; 11 others were wounded, one critically. Six of the wounded also are university students.

Youngstown police say the gunfire came from outside the house, where about 50 people were gathered.

The city of Austin, Texas, may have bitten off more than it can chew, swallow and — well, you know what comes next.

Austin's Solid Waste Services Department decided it needed a new name. Something with a bit more panache. So they put it to the people of Austin in an online vote — and so far, their overwhelming choice seems to be "The Fred Durst Society of the Humanities and Arts."

Serves 2.

Ingredients

4 skinless, boneless chicken thighs, cut into bite-sized pieces

For the marinade

1 tablespoon soy sauce

1 tablespoon Chinese rice wine or dry sherry (optional)

1 teaspoon cornflour

1 large garlic clove, well crushed

1 teaspoon finely grated ginger

1/4 teaspoon salt

For the sauce

2 tablespoons soy sauce

2 tablespoons oyster sauce

3 tablespoons low-sodium chicken broth or water

1/2 teaspoon sesame oil