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...Palo Alto, Ca. yesterday visiting Stanford, said, "I find many things attractive about Harvard especially the quality of the intellect there. The programs and academic opportunities here would be quite stimulating...
...choir needs its professionals. "We'd be all over the lot, surrounding notes as opposed to hitting them," says Carl Igelbrink, a bass. There is also the matter of attendance. Igelbrink will miss three rehearsals this month because of business travel. An alto has a conflict with a Chinese language class, and another has been out speaking to Hispanic groups for the Republican Party. But the professionals always show up; they need the income while they ! struggle to build performing careers...
...choir has been building all month toward an evensong for All Saints. On the big afternoon, they assemble for a final rehearsal. Nothing goes right. The choir's attempt at a Nunc Dimittis produces dissonance and glances of distress. Some heretic in the alto section sings "Holy Spirit" when everybody else is singing "Holy Ghost." Twice Barber loses his place...
Then the evensong begins, with the choir in blue robes and white cottas. They sing intensely about a voice from heaven, and as they intone the words "Blessed are the dead, blessed are the dead . . ." bass, tenor, alto and soprano seem to wheel around one another, in an eerie polyphony that rolls across the congregation...
Collagen, which is used in cosmetic creams, is a natural protein found in connective tissue, including the skin and bone. The injectable variety, developed by the Collagen Corp. of Palo Alto, Calif., is derived from the hides of cows. In a typical treatment, the collagen is inserted just under the skin in a series of ten to 15 shots. Used primarily to combat forehead furrows and the lines that extend from the nose to the lips, collagen fills in the space behind and around wrinkles and sags, much like the way air fills a balloon and makes its skin grow...