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...veteran keeper boasts a 1.67 goals-against average, and the shutout of Cornell marked her third blank sheet of the year...

Author: By Christen B. Brown, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Maintains 16-Year Streak | 10/13/2009 | See Source »

...march by John Philip Sousa, with its crisp trumpet lines, sonorous bass undertones, and delicate flute ornamentation. The piece is rightly a classic of 20th-century wind band literature. Yet despite its popularity, mere mention of the word “wind ensemble” often elicits either blank indifference or vague recollection of a long-dropped middle- school activity. This is unfortunate—for though it tends to be overlooked, the wind ensemble offers an artistic experience as beautiful as anything performed in Sanders Theatre...

Author: By Bilal A. Siddiqui | Title: Winds and Brass Forever | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

...service, the bill proposes reducing the requirement to four years. Of course, none of this really matters if no one knows about the program. "We really need to increase awareness," says Courtney. "When you talk to school administrators and veterans groups about Troops to Teachers, they practically draw a blank. The military is one of the most idealistic, public-spirited segments of this country's population, so why wouldn't we want to have more of them in our classrooms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Iraq to Class: Turning Troops into Teachers | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

...London's Tate Modern art gallery, a spotlight shines on a blank space where a photograph of a nude Brooke Shields, age 10, was supposed to hang. A sign warns, "This room contains images that some visitors may find challenging." The museum removed the image this week just before a new exhibition on Pop art opened. The reason: an unexpected visit by police to check out the controversial image. The photograph, which shows the young Shields standing in a bathtub and wearing heavy makeup, was displayed recently in New York City and Paris without contest, but the prestigious modern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nude Brooke Shields Causes a Flap at London's Tate | 10/5/2009 | See Source »

...years." Now scientists have a trove of information from an era some 700,000 years closer to the dawn of the human lineage. "This isn't just a skeleton," he says. "We've been able to put together a fantastic, high-resolution snapshot of a period that was a blank." The search for more pieces continues, but the outlines of the puzzle, at least, are coming into focus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ardi Is a New Piece for the Evolution Puzzle | 10/1/2009 | See Source »

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