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...lessons of my childhood bounced about inside my head. I had ridden the subway since I was much too young to remember, and to and from school every day since I was 13. Never ride in the back car, my parents had often warned. Always ride with a conductor or in the front car. Don’t draw attention to yourself. And most of all, be careful...
...barely heard the command, but I wasn’t about to forget the parental advice that had banished any notions of heroism from my head. The contents of my wallet and a digital camera later, the train pulled into 36th St. After the four fled, the conductor pulled out of the station, unobservant witnesses and Bad Samaritans...
...Harvard Medley and proceeded to go through all of Harvard’s traditional fight songs, from “Harvardiana” to “Fight Fiercely” to “Gridiron King” with a different alum conducting each piece. Current student conductor Josh Rissmiller ’06 was the last to take the podium, as he was given the honor of leading the band’s staple piece—“Ten Thousand Men of Harvard...
...arriving in Tokyo station!" announced the conductor of an 1874 Sharp, Stewart & Co. locomotive chugging through the museum grounds. For a moment, it was easy to believe him?not least because we were staring at a onetime icon of the Japanese capital, Frank Lloyd Wright's Imperial Hotel. Or its lobby, at any rate. Built in 1923 near Tokyo's palace, the hotel was torn down in 1965?but not before preservationists managed to dismantle and move a portion to the museum. Visitors can enter the turf stone and brick remains, restored to include a coffee shop, replete with original...
...destroy improperly folded proteins that can cause such aging-related ailments as Huntington's disease. Other genes affect the transport of fat around the body--which may also have an effect on aging--and create proteins that kill invading microbes. "It's like an orchestra," says Kenyon. "The conductor is the hormones. You have the flutes as the antioxidant genes. The violins would be the chaperones, the cellos the metabolic genes. And maybe the drums would be the antimicrobial genes. So many different kinds of genes can have enormous effects on life and death, and each...