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...09—began with acts strongly rooted in tradition, such as Irish music and dance troupe Ceolta Gael, but these pieces soon gave way to more free-flowing performances like the popping and locking motions of the battling Harvard Breakers breakdancing group. From the “Kung Fu Hustle”-style performance of the Harvard Wushu Club as they displayed martial arts skills to the billowing skirts of dancers in Ballet Folklórico de Aztlán, all the acts displayed an abundance of cultural diversity. One of the highlights of the afternoon was the Filipino...
...robots exist simply to amuse. Montreal's WowWee Ltd., for example, used technology that trickled down from the military and NASA to create Robosapien, a cartoonish humanoid with cutting-edge capabilities. Standing around 61 cm tall, he can perform 80 functions, including disco dancing, kicking and kung fu...
...Well I might go get me a new tattoo / Take my old Harley for a three day cruise / Might even grow me a Fu Manchu.” –Travis Tritt, “It’s a Great Day to Be Alive?...
...fittings, fine wines and what might be described as discriminating prices. It's aimed, says Probert, at "locals who have become more affluent and discerning." It's not just foreign investors who are targeting the city's moneyed class. Prominent Beijing nightlife entrepreneur Henry Lee has just opened Rui Fu, tel: (86-10) 6404 2711. With a tastefully understated interior and a range of expensive tipples, Rui Fu is being heralded as yet another antidote to the tawdry dance clubs that have been a mainstay of the capital's youth-oriented nightlife in recent years. But how will Beijing...
...made of 12 long chains of amino acids with a mass about 10 times that of average protein. To find the structure of large proteins such as RNA polymerase, scientists have to purify them, crystallize them, and then use x-ray crystallography to visualize the structure, according to Jianhua Fu, an assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at Cornell. Fu worked with Kornberg at Stanford and authored one of the scientific papers cited by the Nobel Prize committee. Fu said Kornberg used interdisciplinary techniques involving biology, chemistry, and physics to visualize the RNA’s structure...