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...communicating.” But the panelists stressed that delivering a younger generation to the polls is not as simple as creating a MySpace account. “Technology opens up the door, but you need to have some sort of mechanism to transform it into on-the-ground action,” Volpe said. “Never, ever underestimate the importance of the candidate, the message.” —Staff writer Brenda C. Maldonado can be reached at bmaldon@fas.harvard.edu...
...that a friend’s child has cancer is how it will affect the seating arrangements at a wedding. It’s a show in which the best place to put a dead friend is out on the terrace for the rest of the winter, until the ground is soft enough to bury him. While this could be taken as a disclaimer, it will hopefully function as an enticement, because while “Pterodactyls” is jarring in its twisted take on reality, it is well done and, above all, wickedly funny...
...June 1908, a stray space rock—now thought to be a comet—hurtled toward the Tunguska River in Siberia and exploded about five miles above the ground. Observers tens of miles away from ground zero reported that the “sky split in two,” the air became unbearably hot, and a shock wave threw people against the ground. The force of the explosion leveled 500 square miles of forest...
...Histories” tell us that King Xerxes of Persia filled the Hellenic peninsula with his barbaric hordes, ready to conquer and command Greece. Vastly outnumbered and representing the alliance of Greek city-states, 300 Spartans—the movie’s namesake—held their ground for three days at the pass of Thermopylae, where numbers mattered less than in open ground...
...these disorders by involving researchers from a wide range of medical disciplines. “We’re really going after bipolar disorder and schizophrenia that in most part strike young people at the peak of their lives when they’re just getting off the ground,” Scolnick said. “We really can take this on now in an intense and creative way.” University Provost Steven E. Hyman, who formerly directed the National Institute of Mental Health, said the state-of-the-art approaches that the $100 million gift will...