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...experimental treatment includes steps that sound a lot like science fiction: Harvesting the patient's own skin cells, growing them in a petri dish, and transecting those cells with the gene that creates nerve growth factor - a substance required to maintain normal brain function. The final step is the most dramatic: During an 11-hour procedure, doctors drilled a hole in the right side of the patient's brain and implanted the cells...
...What Thoré recognized was the revolutionary in Vermeer - his emphasis on a perfected state of life without external intrusions and noise, his stress on form rather than function and his extraordinary command of perspective. Thoré was writing at the dawn of photography, which helped artists see in a new way. Vermeer, it then became clear, had broken the mold two centuries earlier...
...through annual tests. It would be an illusion to consider charter schools the perfect solution, capable of trimming the excesses of government-run public schools. Yet there is something telling about our readiness to push public schools through every test imaginable while allowing private corporations and market forces to function with little oversight. As Americans, we have a fundamental trust in the invisible hand, enlightened self-interest and Adam Smith to plan our society. Similarly, we have automatic distaste for perceived inefficiency and inefficacy in government-run programs...
...Located in the heart of Wellesley's campus this exhibition is comprised of two pieces. Similar in structure and function, the only real difference between the two works of art that hang in this one room gallery is their color scheme. Zemlin made the first in varying shades of cream, the second in vibrant primary colors...
...HUPD units were dispatched after a caller reported the larceny of a beer keg tap after a function at Harkness Commons...