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...Prisoner is a wee little movie, only 72 minutes long, and it is very minimalist in approach - three interviews, a little action footage shot by Yunis and Tucker, with comic book cartoons (by co-director Epperlein) filling in the visual gaps in the story (a much more honest approach than using impersonal stock footage and a lot of pompous narration). But this punctiliousness, this refusal to inflate, grants it a large measure of persuasive power. You believe it precisely because it makes no claims it cannot document and, more important, because you imagine yourself in his sandals, trying desperately...
...soon for the judge to choose jury instructions in the Black trial. But if she and each side's lawyers are up on the latest research, and a little bit bold, they'll consider the "fully convinced" approach. Conrad Black couldn't ask for more...
...understand ourselves and our growing responsibilities as young adults, we are still in a very privileged environment. The trips that these students will be taking offer a valuable service to the target communities and will also provide an enriching addition to the students’ educational experience if they approach the trips with the right mindset...
...could ever make them do it by that way anyway, which is very doubtful—you wouldn’t gain anything,” Bok said.By contrast, Summers resigned from a general education committee after clashing with faculty members that believed he was too aggressive in his approach to pushing reforms.Mendelsohn said he was impressed with the way Bok listened to professors throughout the process, saying that professors “were not being pushed or herded, but they were being encouraged.”A vote on revamping the Core, a major portion of the curricular review...
Jacobs-Lorena and his colleagues at Johns Hopkins University have taken a different approach to combating malaria. They have engineered a mosquito that produces an extra protein in its gut, which blocks the malarial parasite from infecting it. The team recently discovered unexpectedly that one of their engineered mosquito strains is “fitter” than ordinary mosquitoes. Once you infect it with a certain strain of mouse-borne malaria parasite, it lives longer and produces more offspring than infected wild-type mosquitoes. Place equal numbers of the two types of mosquitoes into the same cage...