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...physical, and biological sources.”Musico didn’t start out in musical theater. “I am a pianist, by trade,” he says. “I grew up in a traditional Italian family that felt wholesome kids should play an instrument.” He began playing the piano at age five, and studied classical artists until high school. It was then that he began to explore jazz and musicals.The experience that would lead to Musico’s continued involvement with the performing arts occurred when he participated in Harvard?...
...Neither of my parents graduated from college,” Adams recalls. “[College] came up as just sort of a wish.”In his youth, Adams took up the clarinet. Upon graduating from high school in 1965, he had already mastered the instrument. “It’s a well-kept secret, but the clarinet is a rather easy instrument to master,” Adams adds humbly. Feeling that there was little for him to learn at a conservatory, and urged by parents deprived of college education to build a broad base...
...nothing to hide,” he said. “The whole [global] community is really after the most accurate satellite technology to track down where most pollution comes from, to see if countries are in compliance with international treaties.” The Dutch-Finnish Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI), used for this research, is unique for its daily global coverage. “Previously satellites...looked at [regions] every three days or every week, but OMI has the advantage of seeing the same place every day,” Wang added...
...most actors, though, including the most distinguished, playing a rotter offers a holiday from more serious fare; a nice paycheck after all those worthy little independent films; a chance to retune the actor's instrument and play it in a darker, bolder key; or just the fun of being in a movie everyone will see. We heard from a dozen of them and squirreled out the secrets of their craft: the Seven Rules of Movie Villainy...
...procedure he had developed. This is what I wrote back then: "McMahon has developed his own method that he calls intrauterine cranial decompression. He arranges the fetus so that he can remove it feet first. Before the skull emerges, he 'collapses' it by inserting a three-millimeter instrument known as a cannula and extracting its fluid. By keeping the fetus intact, he says, he runs less risk of internal injury to the woman...