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...rare to see genuine interaction among different groups. If you were to visit Seattle Central Community College, however, you might just find a 40-year-old Hispanic mom designing computer software with a lanky, blond, 24-year-old snowboarder. Or maybe you will run into Gil Reynosa, 31, a deaf student from Mexico, building a boat with Rhonda Pence, 50, a former teacher. At Seattle Central, diversity is real, and so are its benefits...
...composed of college students and regular dining hall workers from BU, plus a few local residents. We’re here for the good pay, the free room and board and the summer away from Boston, but also for the music. Some of us are musicians, some tone-deaf. The chorus of Bon Jovi’s “Living on a Prayer” is never very melodious, but is belted out with a fair amount of gusto and no thought for intonation. And though we can now all sing along to at least a good portion...
...appearance over a few generations through intensive breeding - and that they could show their handiwork for pleasure and profit. Many countries, with Britain among the foremost despite its long dog-breeding tradition, are only slowly addressing the accumulated health problems that may leave animals crippled, blind or deaf. Dogs were once bred for protection, hunting and herding. The favored traits were those evolved through natural selection: stamina, agility, intelligence and speed. But the Victorians' emphasis on appearance rather than performance changed all that. Over the decades, changing fashions encouraged exaggerated, distorted features such as massive heads, squashed muzzles, hairless bodies...
...long. Cavalier King Charles spaniels and boxers are now often afflicted by heart problems. Irish setters, cocker spaniels and collies suffer various inherited eye disorders, while Shar-Peis have congenital skin disorders. Poodles are prone to epilepsy, and 20%-25% of Dalmatians in Britain have some form of deafness. Hip dysplasia, mainly an inherited disorder causing malformed hip joints that in turn can cause crippling arthritis and lameness and even require hip replacement surgery, affects breeds like German shepherds, Labrador retrievers, and Newfoundlands. Elbow dysplasia is another inherited problem. "It is all rather like reading an account of the royal...
...Anyway, that?s what I said when the record came out. Something of an obsessive in my youth, I must have played "What?d I Say" a thousand times on my plastic 45 in the third-floor back bedroom. (My parents, indulgent and slightly deaf, were two floors away.) I think even then I responded as much to the musical craft of the piece as to its hedonistic invitation to "shake that thing." It?s break from earlier Charles work was evident from the first note -on an electric piano that sounded like a guitar with a mitten muffling...