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...hard to believe that anyone would delay trying this fool-proof technique of increasing health and alertness. I urge one and all to head for the MAC no later than tomorrow-oops, I mean this very...

Author: By Susannah B. Tobin, | Title: Following the Worse Path | 5/14/1997 | See Source »

...sweet at all, the virtual bees chose the reliably sweet flowers 85% of the time. In laboratory experiments real bees behave just like their virtual counterparts. What does this have to do with drug abuse? Possibly quite a lot, says Montague. The theory is that dopamine-enhancing chemicals fool the brain into thinking drugs are as beneficial as nectar to the bee, thus hijacking a natural reward system that dates back millions of years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADDICTED: WHY DO PEOPLE GET HOOKED? | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

...also solidly entertaining as Benedick from Much Ado About Nothing, musing on what follies seize men after they fall in love: "I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster, but...till he have made an oyster of me, he shall never make me...a fool." Jae Y. Kim '96 gave a rousing call to arms in Henry V's "St. Crispian's Day" speech, and Scott A. Rifkin '97--earlier overeager in the Comedy of Errors scene--redeemed himself in a highly comic turn as the servant Launce from The Two Gentlemen of Verona. (Rifkin...

Author: By Susannah R. Mandel, | Title: Wood Offers Brash Showing Of Verse on Bard's Birthday | 4/29/1997 | See Source »

...sure there are ways to fool it," he added...

Author: By Andrew S. Chang, | Title: Program Catches Computer Science Cheaters | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

Though the supertitles were easy to follow, sometimes the translations were weak. "Oh what a pleasant warmth runs through me," the English ran for one of Nemorino's declamations. "Perhaps she feels the same flame." Likewise, to translate two ultra-colorful words, "buffone" and "ragazzo," both as "fool," seemed unimaginative. It was more rewarding to listen to the mellifluous Italian than to fix one's eyes on the words above the stage...

Author: By Matthew A. Carter, | Title: BLO's 'Elisir d'Amore' a Sure-Fire Cure for the Opera Blues | 4/10/1997 | See Source »

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