Melancholic songs, dance rhythms or romantic background music? The mood player can recognize musical characteristics and sort songs according to moods. It also blends in suitable images to the rhythm of the music.

By ALAN WESTON MERSEYSIDE Police last night said they were becoming increasingly concerned for the welfare of two teenage girls missing from their Wirral homes since last week.

By John Pitcher, Omaha World-Herald, Neb. May 19--Imagine that just before composing his dark masterpiece, "Nebraska," Bruce Springsteen had come across the writings of Dr. Phil.

By Garrison Keillor Against Happiness In Praise of Melancholy By Eric G. Wilson 166 pages. $20. Sarah Chrichton Books/Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Reviewed by Garrison Keillor * It is a short but laborious book, and it begins: "Ours are ominous times.

By Brosco, Jeffrey P Watts, Sheldon SECTION 3 MEDICINE AND HEALTH Two Views: Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates. By David Wootton (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. xvi plus 320 pp. $25.00). 1.