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SCIENCE FRICTION, acidly quipped one Paris newspaper. Across the English Channel in London, Britain's New Scientist magazine howled, NATURE SENDS IN THE GHOST BUSTERS TO SOLVE RIDDLE OF THE ANTIBODIES. After a month of heated controversy and speculation, the curtain fell last week, at least for now, on one of the strangest tales of scientific controversy in recent memory. The story became public on June 30, when the prestigious British science journal Nature published a report, hedged with "editorial reservation," on a phenomenon that defied the laws of physics and molecular biology: water apparently retained a "memory" of some...
...miracle of late Braque lies in this conjuncture of the explicit and the poetic. The green surface of The Billiard Table, 1945, folding in the middle, seems to be foundering in the aqueous gray and olive planes of the room like a sinking ship. Perhaps there is a ghost of a clue in the barely visible lettering on the wall, part of a cafe sign reminding patrons of the law against public drunkenness. But between the elements of the painting there is a continuous jostling, circling and reflection, a sense of the vitality of form in every particular, that puts...
...ghost of Solidarity was even more pervasive at Gorbachev's other destination, the shipbuilding city of Szczecin, on the Baltic Sea. Along with former Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa and his supporters in the city of Gdansk, the 8,000 workers of Szczecin's Adolf Warski shipyard were instrumental in + founding the independent labor union. Speaking to 3,000 workers in the shipyard's cavernous hull-assembly building, a solemn Gorbachev avoided any direct mention of Solidarity, whose underground leadership had earlier issued a statement praising his reforms in the Soviet Union. The closest he came was to congratulate workers...
...time he was 25, Olmos had two sons: Mico, from the Spanish mi hijo (my son), and Bodie, named after a ghost town in eastern California. To support his growing brood, he took a job delivering antique furniture between acting and music gigs. By the early '70s, Olmos was landing small parts on shows like Kojak and Hawaii Five-O, often as bartenders and two-bit hooligans. "I was the only person Jack Lord shot in the back, ever," he notes dryly. "That's how bad I was." Then in 1978, during an audition for a play at Los Angeles...
What is deficient at Harvard is not the ideal but the implementation. Core courses are too large, while teaching often falls to graduate students largely ignorant of the Core's larger goals. As facts take the place of method, the ghost of Henry Adams snickers...