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...director Julian Marsh says to burgeoning but reluctant star Peggy Sawyer in “42nd Street.” The Boston Conservatory’s production of this musical serves as a compelling, nearly infallible corroboration of Marsh’s lingual assessment. The energy and sheer joy of the cast and orchestra is immediately palpable with the first rise of the curtain, revealing pairs upon pairs of synchronized tapping feet. While perhaps hewing a bit too close to the design and staging of the excellent 2001 Broadway revival, the Boston Conservatory’s production—which...
...acting on dopamine receptors, varenicline also may change the way some people experience joy. Last year, the writer Derek de Koff (who was a longtime smoker and also - full disclosure - an acquaintance of mine) wrote a harrowing New York magazine account of his experience with varenicline. He experienced awful hallucinations while taking the drug - he wrote about speaking to a man in a bar who turned out to be a shadow cast by a potted plant. De Koff also became despondent. "I wondered whether [varenicline] was zapping my brain's pleasure-delivery system to such a degree that not only...
...gaseous planets, because they are usually large and easier to view. The Alan T. Waterman award is specifically targeted to young professionals, requiring that the recipient be under the age of 35, a U.S. citizen, and have had a Ph.D. for fewer than seven years. According to Lisa-Joy Zgorski, the media officer for the National Science Foundation, this award honors “young professionals who have each have achieved great things.” The award will provide Charbonneau with $500,000 over a three-year period. According to Charbonneau, most traditional research grants need to be approved...
Watching athletes compete at the highest level just for fun lets us share in their joy...
...afford the visiting cricket team sufficient protection. Foreign teams, including Australia, England and India, have all refused to play in Pakistan in recent years because of security fears. But Pakistani authorities have insisted that security is fine. It will be harder to do that now. "The happiness and joy that cricket brought to our country has been destroyed by the violence we saw today," says Ali Shujaat, owner of the Lahore Cricket Academy. "We have got infrastructure worth millions of dollars, and we now see no future for professional cricket in Pakistan. Who will play...