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...with any number of possible personalities, styles and underlying motives--Egan's seemed to be a rather ambivalent blend of melancholy, severity and occasional bouts of hysteria. His Hamlet also seemed to be thoroughly lacking in a sense of humor, which was too bad; it's often just that element of irony, of detached awareness of his own role-playing, which elevates Hamlet above being just another melodramatic hero...
...strongest element this production had working for it, ultimately, was the simple--and marvelously complex--power of the text itself. This production did succeed in bringing much of its power out rather beautifully. It looks as if the Hyperion's experiment was successful: they brought one of the most difficult and rewarding plays in history to a large student audience, and they succeeded in demonstrating that Sanders really is (except for those darn acoustics) suitable for Shakespeare. If the production, as Norton wrote of the actor who played Hamlet in '56 (the amusingly named Colgate Salsbury '57), had certain marked...
...cellular call from one to another, then beam the data stream downward 420 miles to one of 12 earth stations where the call would enter the terrestrial telephone network. Motorola dubbed the system--and the company it spun off to build and operate it--Iridium, after the 77th element on the periodic table. (After trimming the number of satellites required to 66, Motorola wisely chose not to go with the name of the corresponding element, the practically unpronounceable Dysprosium...
Armed with this knowledge, says Edward Keystone, director of advanced therapeutics in arthritis at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, "we're targeting every element of this disease from start to finish." The new drug Arava, for example, created by the Kansas City, Mo., firm Hoechst Marion Roussel, stops white cells from reproducing. Enbrel, a genetically engineered medication from Seattle-based Immunex, works by sopping up a tumor-killing cytokine called tumor necrosis factor before it can issue its call for reinforcements. The COX-2 inhibitors target prostaglandin production, limiting pain and inflammation. And the blood-filtration device, invented at Cypress...
...hope that somewhere out there, some town can withstand the onslaught of modern culture and consumerism and retain some element of their history and individuality. And, if that fails, there's always the "inexhaustible" array of useless garbage you can buy at Wal-Mart for those of us still seeking variety. Timothy F. Sohn '01, a Crimson editor, is a history and science concentrator in Adams House...