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Perhaps with November in mind, both campaigns have focused attention on the state's seven Indian reservations, a crucial bloc that helped narrowly defeat incumbent GOP Sen. Conrad Burns in 2006. Both expressed support for improved federal-tribal relations and medical care. Clinton visited the Flathead Reservation, and daughter Chelsea met Thursday with a group of state tribal leaders. Obama was adopted into the Crow Tribe by the Black Eagle family just before he spoke to 3,000 supporters at the reservation's Veterans Park a few miles from the site of Custer's Last Stand. He's hoping that...
...graduate student at Caltech. Instead of using time-consuming methods like trial and error, he asked a computer to figure out what mix of amino acids would make a protein of a particular shape. (Shape is important because a protein's structure determines its function. Just like a flathead screwdriver is appropriate for some jobs and a Philips for others, proteins' different shapes help them effectively attack different disease cells.) The desired shape is easy to figure out; finding the single protein in a world populated by trillions of them is the hard part...
...nine, Jostrom picked up a fiddle of his own. Within months, he was performing with a local 10-piece band, the Flathead Junior Fiddlers, and performing in the junior-junior division of fiddling contests...
...common profession in his native South America. "For us it is a tradition," he explains. Indeed, from Homer to Spanish gypsies, minstrelsy may be the civilized world's third-oldest profession--after, of course, prostitution and law. Unfortunately, says Ned Landin, a street performer known to his following as "Flathead," street performance is about as venerated in the United States as numbers one and two. "Here you get bumped into being a street person. Not that there's anything wrong with being a street person, but that's not what...
Potato, the small terrier owned by street musician Ned Landin--a.k.a. Flathead--has been a Square fixture for two years, but she was lost six days ago near The Harvest, the Brattle Street restaurant...