Word: experimentalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What worries A.B.T. dancers is not that Misha will experiment, but that he will be too tough. They may have a point. Baryshnikov feels that "in a way I will be onstage every night. If a ballerina does not do 32 fouettes, then I will feel that I have failed...
Now Pathologist Paul Lacy and his colleagues at Washington University have devised a way to encourage islet survival-at least in laboratory animals. Taking healthy islets from rats, the team "incubated" them at room temperature for seven days, then injected them into diabetic animals, along with an immunosuppressive serum. More...
Only 25 miles away lay Auschwitz and the adjoining concentration camp, Birkenau. The Pope visited the cell of a beatified Franciscan priest, Martyr Maximilian Kolbe, who offered his own life to save a fellow prisoner. The prisoner, Franciszek Gajowniczek, was there, along with other survivors of the camp (including some...
A number of hospitals are already making efforts to keep a sharper eye on costs. At California's Long Beach Community Hospital, staff doctors meet at least four times a year for what they call "economic rounds," studying patients' bills to make sure they are not padded. At one such...
He believes that certain attempts to pierce the mystery of things are conducted backward: "Instead of using what we can guess at about the nature of thought to explain the nature of music, start over again. Begin with music and see what this can tell us about the sensation of...