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...Crick, always restless, decided there were greater opportunities in embryology, the study of how a single fertilized egg develops into an adult organism. A decade later, he made another major change by moving to the Salk Institution in La Jolla, Calif., to explore the brain. He began by looking at dreams and soon shocked Freudians by concluding that dreams were simply the brain's nightly housecleaning to make room for new memories...
Incredible things will happen a half-century from now. We'll have cellular therapies--the use of cells, either genetically engineered or natural--to treat disease. We'll be building organs in cell culture and replacing worn-out or diseased organs. We'll be putting into our bodies adult stem cells that are modified and allow the body to make new kinds of therapeutic agents never made before...
...G.I.s were not unrespectful, he recalls: "They never entered my home." But they ordered out all the adult males and trucked them to a prison camp in Saudi Arabia, he says. Hamed was spared because of his age, and his sons escaped the punishment because they were all away, in Basra. Hamed says it was five months before the young men of Khardeh returned. In the meantime, the womenfolk and old men had to tend the crops and collect the harvest. "It was a terrible, terrible time," Hamed says, squatting on a carpet in his furnitureless living room...
...When you have responsibility to the choir,” Alexander said. “You gain it inside of you and it keeps growing until it turns out into an adult...
...Russian Choir, numbering over thirty voices, is composed of adult singers selected from leading choirs in Russia and of younger boys who are the children of Russian immigrants in New York City. The reverential and extremely impressive character of the Russian music, little known to people of other countries, adds its glories to the other dramatic splendors of the Russian orthodox service. Without the Russian deep basses, the religious music of Russia cannot be given. Their combination with the distinct style of the Russian boys gives a strange intensive force and unfamiliar devotional intensity to religious music. In the perfection...