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...Faust legend has been reincarnated in myriad forms: Faust as 16th century necromancer, Faust damned to hell, Faust saved by the grace of God, Faust as 20th century composer. The latest adaptation of Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Fautus, performed at the Loeb Ex last weekend, added a refreshing sense of vitality and humor to the tried and true theme. Director Cary McClennand '02 admitted that one of his main concerns has been adapting the religious theme for the modern-day audience. He feels that Marlowe's play is "timeless," but found it necessary to remove the few historical references that...
...girth filling much of the passenger's side. He took off his headphones and chastised an imagined "motherf----er" in the back of the van before punching himself in the head and immediately apologizing to me for doing so. A brief conversation ensued. He sold me a CD, "Dr. Wax." Willis then grabbed the back of my head and instructed me to say "Rah!," which I did, and then he head-butted me right on the enormous callus that sits in the middle of his forehead from repeated buttings. This happened a few more times; I was also entreated...
...that people who work the night shift pay a physiological toll as they depart from the basic time clock dictated by their circadian rhythms. They also have more frequent job-related accidents and have to struggle harder to maintain their at-work focus. And when workers suffer, companies suffer. Dr. Martin Moore-Ede, CEO of Boston-based Circadian Technologies and author of The Twenty-Four-Hour Society, observes that the firms that have chosen to "push it to the max get hit later by the hidden problem of fatigue, burnout and stress." Sometimes the results can be disastrous. According...
...latest Nature Neuroscience, Dr. Antonio Damasio and his colleagues describe two young adults--a woman, 20, and a man, 23--who suffered early injuries to the prefrontal cortex, an area of the brain thought to serve as a kind of moral and social compass. The woman was run over by a car at 15 months; the man had a brain tumor removed at three months. Both made remarkable recoveries until they began to display serious behavioral problems...
...PAGING DR. DOTCOM A major reason patients may shy away from managing their health care online is fear that their privacy will be invaded. What if someone could find out your test results or what's in your medicine chest? To head off such fears, the American Medical Association, with Intel's help, will begin credentialing online doctors. A digital identity card will allow them to transmit medical data to patients securely. Next on our wish list: e-docs who make house calls...