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...produces a correspondingly full sound that drew the most out of an otherwise secondary role. Bridget Haile ’11 performs the role of the small-town bigwig Lady Billows with glowing irony and cutting diction—crucial for an English-language opera performed without the benefit of surtitles...
Sanders Theatre is hosting a benefit concert from 7-9 p.m. this Friday featuring violinist Ryu Goto '11, pianist Charlie Albright ’11, jazz pianist Malcolm G. Campbell ’10, dancer Merritt A. Moore ’11, the Kuumba Singers, the Harvard Glee Club, the Harvard Caribbean Dance Team, and the Modern Dance Company. Tickets are $10 for students ($25 for adults) and can be purchased through the Harvard Box Office...
Shedding Our DNA Chains Kudos on your cover story on epigenetics [Jan. 18]. As the director of mind-body medicine for a cancer center that offers seminars on how patients can benefit from this emerging science, I can attest that most have never heard of epigenetics. Yet everything in our environment - the way we think and feel, our exposure to stress - affects the way our DNA is expressed. Once we understand this premise, we can incorporate strategies to effect epigenetic changes - including neurogenesis, the growth of new nerve tissue in the brain. Brenda Stockdale Atlanta...
...study by Network for Good found that the dynamics of online donations particularly benefit disaster victims. People instinctively want to help when they see news coverage of a humanitarian disaster, and the ease of online giving leads to impulse donations. Clicking a mouse or sending a text certainly isn’t as onerous as writing and mailing a check, and it allows donors to act immediately, while their emotional response to the news is still fresh...
...real world as CO2 levels mount. Whether the forests' growth spurt might actually impact global warming by absorbing and storing more carbon is doubtful. While it's true that more trees suck up more carbon, they also produce more dark, heat-absorbing foliage, which somewhat counteracts the benefit. In addition, one extra tree per acre per year doesn't make much of a dent in the atmospheric carbon load, not to mention that it's still unknown what the effect would be in other kinds of forests...