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...background, Schulz’s father Jacob (Carlos Uriona) and his mother (Carroll Durand) ponder their simple lives: Uriona slowly consumes a bowl of soup, and Durand looks over a Torah...
Hundreds, if not thousands, of new labs are now conducting high-risk biological experiments in the U.S., with at least 15,000 technicians working daily on the world's deadliest pathogens - the vast majority of them for the first time. Though FBI background checks are required for people who handle so-called select agents - a government-drawn list of 73 highly lethal pathogens, such as Ebola, ricin and monkeypox - the vetting focuses on security, not bio-safety competence. Yet most lab accidents are due to simple human error, says Dr. Gigi Gronvall, Senior Associate at the Center for Biosecurity...
...Across the Universe” is not your average song-and-dance musical. Dialogue blends into lyrics and trippy, dreamlike sequences, and at the center of it all stands Sturgess. He plays Jude, singing his way through the 1960s. “As far as my musical background, I came from being in a band back in London,” said Sturgess, and like his character, he was blown away by New York City. “I had never really traveled to America,” he said. EERIE SYMMETRY One particular moment of filming stood...
...slideshow highlighting moments in Hazich’s life—photos of him diving into 40-degree water in Chile and posing at the U.S. Open—cycled in the background as those who knew him shared memories of his impact on their lives...
...still provide a nationally standardized benchmark against which admissions officers may quickly garner a rough idea of an applicant’s comparative academic ability. As long as admissions committees are aware of the test’s limitations and interpret scores with the applicant’s socioeconomic background in mind, considering test scores may greatly expedite what would otherwise be an unmanageably complex admissions process. To be sure, in an ideal world, colleges would not have to rely on scores at all when evaluating applicants. This is a luxury Harvard has—the College has a large...