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...dancers copy the move and add it to the existing sequence, a jolting series of leaps and ricochets. The result looks raw, but when he doubles the dancers into pairs and counts them in at one-second intervals, the effect is galvanizing. Energy flickers from performer to performer like fork lightning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wayne McGregor: Mind in Motion | 4/2/2008 | See Source »

Here's how MIMIC works: Donors fork over a few white blood cells - specifically, peripheral blood mononuclear cells, or PBMCs, which include infection-fighting lymphocytes like T and B cells. The blood cells go into specially designed "tissue constructs," which are forged from collagen and endothelial cells and designed to act just like human skin (think a Barbie Dream House for white blood cells). Each construct is hunkered inside an individual well where the blood cells mingle with the faux tissue. As the blood cells get cozy, they flourish, and a teensy, homegrown, fully functioning human immune system is born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Putting Immunity in a Test Tube | 3/27/2008 | See Source »

Saxophonist Marcus G. Miller ’08 introduced Byrant with an anecdote of the first time he heard her sing. “She sounded like a tuning fork, her pitch was so clean and clear. I was like, ‘What’s that?’ and she was like, ‘That’s me, singing...

Author: By Rebecca A. Schuetz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Singing It From Kuumba to Badu | 3/13/2008 | See Source »

...Professor Plum...in the kitchen...with the fork...

Author: By Christopher B. Fuller, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Who stole the money from the PfoHo jar? | 3/5/2008 | See Source »

...while Clooney didn't get famous until his 30s, when ER hit, he had kind of always been famous because of his dad, a popular news anchor in Cincinnati. "From the moment I was born, I was watched by other people. I was taught to use the right fork. I was groomed for that in a weird way," Clooney says. "You give enough. You play completely. You don't say, I don't talk about my personal life. People say they won't talk about their personal life. And then they do. And even when the tabloids say really crappy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: George Clooney: The Last Movie Star | 2/20/2008 | See Source »

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