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...Bruce M. Hood, 35, a British/Canadian expert inthe development of visual abilities who has taughtin Cambridge, England, and is currently a visitingscientist at MIT. Hood will join Harvard as anassociate professor...
...Bill, Hoover's pressure to eradicate them leads the FBI to seek the aid of informants and, finally, drug dealers. And therein lies the downfall of the Panthers. Like Van Peebles' earlier work, "New Jack City," "Panther" ends with a lament about drugs, whose ravaging effects spread from the hood and into the rest of America, devastating us all. In this new fight, we are all united against a common enemy...
...place to begin in a discussion of Windows 95 is under the hood. Although the changes to Windows are evolutionary and not revolutionary, Microsoft has made significant architectural changes to the operating system that improve its flexibility but increase its complexity...
This creates an incentive for colleges to cash in on the government. As John Hood wrote in the latest issue of Reason magazine, "Since a college knows the average expected family contribution of their student body, it makes sense for administrators to boost their charges above that amount--thus making more students eligible for aid. Families will pay more, but a good portion of the tuition hike will be picked up by the government. Hence, colleges and universities can get more money for providing exactly the same service." (Didn't you always wonder why tuition is so high...
Thomas' 21st Century Blues from da Hood, with its unusual but mostly successful attempt to combine blues and rap, is the most ambitious of the three new CDs. His songs boast a crunching blues beat, brash guitars and howling harmonica solos. Thomas, 29, tries to bring the blues into the present. As he sings on the title track, "Whoever says the blues was dead/ Needs to come where I'm from where the streets are red." It's a gutsy album that works best when Thomas stops rapping and lets his music do the talking...