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...into an involving personal one. We never understand why Brandt, who scorns G�illaume at the outset, is won over by him, and thus we don't fully register the human tragedy of his betrayal. Even that treachery seems kind of piddly. Maybe the cold war is already too distant for us to appreciate why G�illaume's spying was so damaging to West Germany, but Frayn does little to clue...
...experiment will have to be replicated before it's fully accepted, and the prospect of some sort of antiaging medicine to protect cells is distant at best. Still, the study seems to tie together a lot of interesting threads. "What will really be interesting," says Sapolsky, "will be to trace the pathways--how you go from the level of people getting no sleep down to the cellular level. It will be amazing once we understand that...
This is literature in mid-transformation, the modernist bleeding into the postmodern and beyond. In his introduction to Astonishing Stories, Chabon calls this new high-low fiction "Trickster literature," and you can almost hear in that label the distant bugle call of a manifesto. And you can almost see the future of literature coming. Looks like it's going to be a page turner...
...dancer who plays Hilarion, one such unfortunate, really makes the character come alive in his expressive face and gestures. In contrast, the wilis’ composed, ethereal faces give them a suitably statuesque and distant feel. The precise coordination of every ballerina in the group—thanks to choreographers Rebecca J. Alaly ’05 and Morgan E. Arenson ’06 based on the original design of Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot—is absolutely seamless. Their ghostly calm makes them feel suspended, evoking the magic of the story...
Theoretically, this wind power is coming from a distant “wind farm,” probably a long way from the lovely Harvard campus. The idea is to help clean up pollution, reduce dependence on foreign oil and create a better quality of life for all of us. A noble cause—if only it worked out that...