Word: bristol
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Three hours to go before the evening's performance and something isn't right. Sitting at a grand piano in St. George's concert hall in Bristol, England, on May 12, Derek Paravicini tears through a rehearsal of The Flight of the Bumblebee, his fingers skittering across the piano keys. The musicians in the Emerald Ensemble orchestra feed off his energy and manage to keep up the pace, but it all sounds a bit off. After several stops and starts, the conductor discovers the problem: the orchestra and the star have been practicing different versions of the same piece...
...Part of why children’s literature is so appealing is that it retains elements that adult literature has lost. In children’s literature one is free to indulge in pure escapism to another world, whether it be in a wardrobe or an opium den in Bristol. The adult fixation on children’s literature is simultaneously nostalgia for the past and a desire to mold the future. And for some it’s just a good read. —Staff writer Madeline K.B. Ross can be reached at mross@fas.harvard.edu...
...help keep the conversation flowing, the University of Bristol's Centre for Deaf Studies in England has developed the first-ever video dictionary for mobile phones. Available at www.mobilesign.org, it features over 5,000 words in British Sign Language demonstrated by a Centre staff member. The service is easy to use - you type in the word you want and then click on the video file - and it costs a mere 2? per sign. Once you have downloaded the video to your phone, it's yours to keep...
...connection between university research and global health. To illustrate the impact students can have on drug affordability, Kim discussed the student activism that led to the launch of UAEM. In the early 1990s, Yale University licensed an exclusive patent for a newly discovered HIV drug to pharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb, making the drug unaffordable for most patients in developing countries. In 2001, a group of Yale students formed Universities Allied for Essential Medicine and pressured their university and Bristol-Myers to allow the distribution of a generic version that same year. Asking the audience...
...points less than the next closest teams, Navy and Roger Williams. EMILY WICK TROPHY Roger Williams might have had great success in Boston, but the team couldn’t emulate that success in its own event, the women’s Emily Wick Trophy, held on Saturday in Bristol, R.I. Two divisions saw five races each, with Harvard taking fourth place in the 10-team field. —Staff writer Malcom A. Glenn can be reached at mglenn@fas.harvard.edu...