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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...book is structured around the encounters between an elusive narrator and Austerlitz, to whom Austerlitz tells his story in instalments, “speaking not so much to me as to himself,” says the narrator. So marginal is the narrator’s presence in the text that his voice is absorbed by his interlocutor’s story, which is reported without quotation marks, so that the two figures become virtually indistinguishable over the course of the narrative. Their chance meetings—in a Belgian cafe, on a ferry crossing the English Channel...

Author: By Grace E. Jackson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Haunting Magnum Opus | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

...context and performance,” Sanford Biggers, the 2009 Marshall S. Cogan Visiting Artist, says of his most recent exhibition which opens in Memorial Hall today. An imaginative artist who experiments in many types of media, Biggers’ innovative and bizarre work has been shown in museums around the world, including the Tate Modern in London and the Whitney in New York. His 2007 piece, “Blossom,” is a 15-foot tall reconstruction of a tree whose trunk penetrates and supports a life-size piano; this oddity is characteristic of Biggers?...

Author: By Alex E. Traub | Title: Going Underground: Biggers’ New Exhibition Explores Slavery | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

...There were three very important changes that can potentially increase the catalytic ability of the enzyme,” said Aminetzach. “The active site opened up, the loops around the active site became more flexible, and the surface electrostatic charge changed from negative to positive...

Author: By Alissa M D'gama, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Similar Venom Found in Two Species | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

Shee comes to life with a triple piourette into a few more turns in “coup de pied,” tacking on a double tour jump just for kicks. The other dancers flood center stage and crowd around him, relegating Kuperman’s frustrated character (the sculptor) to stage right...

Author: By Monica S. Liu | Title: Pointe of Departure | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

...researchers undertook additional genomics lab work and research into related studies to prove that the population in Ecuador had not yet diverged into two separate species, setting it apart from around 20 other systems that had been studied in the past...

Author: By Julie R. Barzilay, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Butterflies Lend Insights About Speciation | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

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