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...week at the opening session of the most comprehensive conference yet held on the fearful subject of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. The AIDS conference, jointly sponsored in Atlanta by the World Health Organization and HHS, drew more than 2,000 researchers, health officials, gay activists and others from points as distant as Zare. As they swapped information in a blizzard of presentations, pamphlets and informal corridor exchanges, the dimensions and nature of the devastating disease came into sharper focus. Among the newer revelations...
Ongoing through June. Painted by a Distant Hand: Mimbres Pottery of the American Southwest. The Peabody Museum. Open daily 9 a.m.-5 p.m. $7.50; students and seniors $6. Free with Harvard ID. Free Sun. 9 a.m.-noon...
...changed from the past albums, for better or for worse. Whereas before the strings and instrumental sounds felt very present, and the idiosyncratic, folksy vocals made the songs feel very close and intimate, the new work with its euphoniously monotonic and often electronically-modulated vox feels much more distant. Instead of crooning into the listener’s ears, Lost and Safe seems to take a step back, de-personalizing their songs in what seems like a greater effort to synthesize the “collective unconscious” that their songs aim for with flat, unemotional singing sounding something...
...first varsity race, Radcliffe held a three-quarters-of-a-length lead over Northeastern after just 500 meters. Boston College sat a distant third. Paced by a series of 10 and 20-stroke power pieces in the heart of the race, the Black and White increased its lead during each of three subsequent 500-meter stretches. Radcliffe crossed the line over three boat lengths ahead of Northeastern and six lengths in front of BC. The Black and White clocked in at 6:34.8, with Northeastern following...
...Szoka: He's changed the way Popes act. In the past they were more distant. He had a great desire to minister to people. After him Popes cannot go back to staying inside their walls...