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...more remarkable, says Berkeley's Shatz, as the central nervous system of an embryo is not a miniature of the adult system but more like a tadpole that gives rise to a frog. Among other things, the cells produced in the neural tube must migrate to distant locations and accurately lay down the connections that link one part of the brain to another. In addition, the embryonic brain must construct a variety of temporary structures, including the neural tube, that will, like a tadpole's tail, eventually disappear...
DIED. EDITH HAISMAN, 100, oldest Titanic survivor; in Southampton, England. In 1912, at age 15, she sailed with her parents on the doomed vessel, and afterward spent a lifetime recalling the night when she and her mother watched from a distant lifeboat as the liner sank, with her father aboard...
Intriguing, visually beautiful, but emotionally distant, Campion's "Portrait" is a spare one--or rather, an abstract one with spaces that are left to the viewer to fill. In the end, viewers will get as much out of it as they are willing to pull from it. Campion doesn't give any answers, only openended questions, powerful in their suggestivenes but frustrating in their essential opacity...
...leaders." That practicality may mean striking another deal. Moscow has spoken vaguely of economic incentives for remaining part of Russia, and Chechnya desperately needs capital to rebuild an infrastructure destroyed by 20 months of heavy fighting. With the international community squarely behind Moscow, Maskhadov knows secession is probably a distant dream. So Monday, he kept his program modest. "People are very tired of war," Maskhadov said Monday. "If people place their trust in me, we will have a chance of a better future...
...wander out to the deck, and the wind slams the door shut. It's locked. Gates tries to call the guard, but he's disappeared to a distant part of the estate. So he leads the way past bulldozers into trenches that will someday become an estuary and stocked trout stream. At the moment, however, it's a quagmire that proves impassable. Remarkably, Gates is able to avoid looking sheepish. After a few more minutes of shouting, he attracts the guard's attention...