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Besides being able to lend an original feel to old songs, k.d. lang was a master at remaining a real person onstage. During parts of songs when her backup musicians play solo, she gave them her head-swaying, toe-tapping attention. When her fans called out "I love you" during a standing ovation, she responded, "It's mutual." She often let the music get the best of her and improvised dances across the stage. During a rendition of "Miss Chatelaine" from her Ingenue album, lang put the mike down just long enough to do a combination merengue-chacha...
Mayer says she was actively recruited by coach Sue Caples and, although wait listed, was eventually admitted to the College and drafted to the varsity team as backup goalie...
...Murphy conceded that Harvard was not adequately prepared for a methodical option onslaught, led by backup Bison quarterback Don McDowell. Coming into the game in the second quarter, McDowell seemed to energize Bucknell into a Nebraska-style offensive juggernaut...
...surgeons who are queasy about operating without a transfusion backup, the operating field is not black and white. The jury is still out on whether it is safe to withhold blood, and large-scale clinical trials have yet to be performed. Last year an nih-funded study tried to get some answers. Dr. Jeffrey Carson, chief of the division of general internal medicine at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, N.J., studied records of 1,950 bloodless-surgery patients in an effort to determine the relationship between patients' hemoglobin levels and the risk of dying or developing...
...rock-fueled new ideas he was on the verge of unleashing. Then the folk-rock mystery rebel of the '70s, releasing insurgent basement tapes, performing benefits for Rubin ("Hurricane") Carter (a convicted murderer whose guilt he questioned). And then the fading master of the '80s, toying with gospel-inspired backup singers, collaborating with playwrights like Sam Shepard, embracing a born-again evangelistic tone, losing some of his edge, his vibrant outsider insolence...