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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nicknamed "sonic hedgehog" (after the popular video game Sonic the Hedgehog) determines the fate of neurons in the spinal cord and the brain. Like a strong scent carried by the wind, the protein encoded by the hedgehog gene (so called because in its absence, fruit-fly embryos sprout a coat of prickles) diffuses outward from the cells that produce it, becoming fainter and fainter. Columbia University neurobiologist Thomas Jessell has found that it takes middling concentrations of this potent morphing factor to produce a motor neuron and lower concentrations to make an interneuron (a cell that relays signals to other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FERTILE MINDS | 2/3/1997 | See Source »

When Branagh does use the period costumes to some effect, his motivation is questionable and questionably hairy. Hamlet, played by Branagh himself, wears black throughout, coupled with a lengthy trench-coat and cape for dramatic effect -- a trick already employed in his not-so-classic redux of Frankenstein. Nevertheless, Hamlet often also dons a white poet shirt, baggy enough to shift the audience's focus in several lengthy scenes to Branagh's chest hair...

Author: By Whitney K. Bryant, | Title: Branagh AND THE BEAST | 1/30/1997 | See Source »

...team now presents the Zimmerman Award--a plaque and Harvard tie symbolic of the sports coat and tie he wore to each game--at its annual dinner to the team's best free-throw shooter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lifelong Harvard Sports Fan Dies at 93 | 1/30/1997 | See Source »

...budget. Over the years, Thomas claims, he stole more than $250,000 worth of goods for them. In the house, police found a stash of luxury items, some with price tags still attached. Among them: Baccarat crystal, a $2,490 Chanel cashmere sweater and a full-length white fox coat. He says the Dicks were fussy: James, for one, was not about to accept suits not labeled Armani...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEY DIDN'T PAY RETAIL | 12/23/1996 | See Source »

Take a look at the pictures on the fifth floor of Lamont. They show Lamont first opening to accommodate Harvard's homogeneous white male coat-and-tie student body. Then, by Dauber's logic, we should have expected Harvard to indeed "bow out gracefully" around the 1960s, as diversity began to prove itself increasingly important in education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dauber Misrepresents Boarding Schools | 12/7/1996 | See Source »

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