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Club Passim provides just the sort of intimate setting that will allow Trapper’s natural stage presence and gift for connecting with the audience to flourish. Trapper has a talent of making every person feel as if he is singing directly to her, and—with his startlingly beautiful eyes full of passion—it’s an awesome (in the Grand Canyon sense of the word) feeling. With the Passim seat farthest from the stage still in kiss-blowing range, every audience member will clearly hear Trapper’s phenomenal lyrics...
Filming got off to a messy start. Two pots of contending poultry were simmering on the stove and, just before the cameras were about to roll, Child unveiled them with a flourish. She took the covers off the pots and swung them up over her shoulders...
...more serious consequences are the long-term ones associated with placing tens of thousands of people on any broad-spectrum antibiotic. Overusing these drugs, physicians have long warned, will permit resistant strains to flourish. One of the scariest examples is the appearance in 1997 of a particularly potent strain of staph bacteria resistant to vancomycin, which used to be the last line of defense. It was partly to avert such a catastrophe that the CDC made its decision last week recommending the switch to doxycycline, which is seen as equally effective. "It would certainly be healthier to have a better...
...Today, the Communist Party's restrictions on religion help sects flourish. China's 18 state-sanctioned Protestant seminaries can't graduate enough ministers, and in the countryside, believers commonly outnumber ordained preachers 50,000 to one?not enough shepherds for an expanding flock. The unavailability of rural health-care means that "seven out of 10 converts come to faith through illness" after people pray for their recovery, estimates Faye Pearson, a teacher at China's biggest seminary, in Nanjing. Many of these converts have scarcely read the Bible. Without strong doctrinal leadership, it's a prescription for heterodoxy...
...although Harvard continued to dictate the flow of the action in the second quarter, several defensive lapses opened the door for the Knights to get back in the game. They did so in a flourish, scoring five goals in the frame to escape the half with a 5-3 lead...