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From an early age, Timothy Wright, 61, excelled at playing the piano at his church. Later he composed music that would make him a Grammy-nominated gospel star. He died on April 23 from injuries suffered last July, after a vehicle driven in the wrong direction collided with his car, killing his wife and grandson...
...exhibition, which runs through Aug. 16, marks the centenary of Bacon's birth in 1909 in Dublin. His father, a truculent British army officer turned horse trainer, shuttled the family for years between Ireland and England. But by the age of 16, Bacon was in London, and living on his own with a small allowance from his mother and the assistance of various older men. Eventually he drifted into a career as an interior decorator while trying to find his way as a painter. But it wasn't until the 1940s that he arrived at the vocabulary of tortured forms...
...situation. “Dream big, invest significantly, apply technological know-how and political will,” he said. Anita McGahan, professor of management at the University of Toronto, presented the difficulties of achieving proper levels of sustenance worldwide to the half-filled Science Center auditorium. Citing age distribution projections, McGahan said that the global hunger situation would likely be exacerbated in the future as resources are diverted towards growing masses of wealthy elderly and away from impoverished regions elsewhere. Richard Leach, senior advisor for public policy at the Friends of the World Food Program, a United Nations humanitarian...
...Resendes heard sounds for the first time when he was nine years old. At that age, he received double cochlear implants, which nearly completely reversed the deafness with which he was born. The danger of injury kept him from participating in any contact sports—he’s picked up squash for the first time at Harvard—but he needed to find a way to have them in his life. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...deaths than other risk factors like high blood pressure or being overweight—said he was surprised by the “magnitude” of the problem. “Smoking effects account for about 1 in 5 deaths in Americans who are over 30 years of age,” he said. Ezzati attributed potential solutions to the problem just as much to policy-making as to individual actions. “Individuals don’t just randomly smoke or stop smoking. They do it because things happen around them, and those things could be higher...