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...ability to scat new energy into old standards and for her long struggle with drug addiction, for which she served jail time; in Los Angeles. Born Anita Colton (O'Day was pig Latin for dough--"what I hoped to make," she said), she brought early hits to bandleaders Gene Krupa (Let Me Off Uptown) and Stan Kenton (And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine) and cemented her hipster reputation by performing in low-key jackets and skirts instead of gowns. Of her career--highlighted by signatures Sweet Georgia Brown and Honeysuckle Rose and a stunning performance at the 1958 Newport Jazz...
...ability to scat new energy into old standards and for her long struggle with drug addiction, for which she served jail time; in Los Angeles. Born Anita Colton (O'Day was pig Latin for dough-"what I hoped to make," she said), she brought early hits to bandleaders Gene Krupa (Let Me Off Uptown) and Stan Kenton (And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine) and cemented her hipster reputation by performing in low-key jackets and skirts instead of gowns. Of her career-highlighted by signatures Sweet Georgia Brown and Honeysuckle Rose and a stunning performance at the 1958 Newport Jazz...
...study, published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, found that swapping a gene linked to aggression—known as “fruitless”—could make male fruit flies fight like females and could make females fight like males...
...We’re trying to learn how a gene specifies all that complicated stuff that animals know how to do,” Kravitz said. “There’s so little known about how complex behaviors”—like aggression—“get wired into the nervous system...
Humans do not have a gene analogous to “fruitless,” Kravitz said, and the genetic behavioral patterns seen in the fruit flies cannot be extrapolated to humans...