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...When the secretary in the photo-illustration for Barbara Kiviat's insightful article on jobs says, "I invested in my work skills," she hits the key right on the typewriter. Knowledge and skills - the stuff jobs are made of, no matter the economy - are our most valuable assets. Kiviat's article reminds us all to keep our knowledge current and our skills marketable for our jobs of both today and tomorrow. Dustin Weiderman, Rochester...
...Jackie Robinson—who broke baseball’s color barrier in 1947—as events whose significance exceeded the narrow confines of sport. Discussing baseball’s uniquely pervasive standing in American culture, Goodwin and Burns emphasized that the familiar, generational aspect of baseball is key to the game’s appeal. Goodwin recalled her childhood habit of filling out box scores and recreating the game for her father, while Burns argued that stories about baseball, unlike those of other sports, “always begin ‘my mom?...
...Walsh stressed in between games.With one out, Douglas doubled to deep left before senior Tom Stack-Babich was hit by a pitch. Sophomore Tyler Albright popped out, but then Walsh called for a double-steal that advanced the runners to second and third. This turned out to be the key moment in the game. On the following play, junior first baseman Dan Zailskas squeaked a single through the left side of the Bulldogs’ infield. Douglas scored to put Harvard on the board, a result that would have been unlikely had he still been on second base.Stack-Babich then...
...shared sense of the world inspired by the common reading of newspapers that led to the social units that became the various American nations. And Richard Rorty, that intellectual juggernaut, makes a compelling, if slightly idealistic, case that novels, in eliciting sympathy from their readers for protagonists, play a key role in training individuals to exercise the sympathy necessary for solidarity in modern heterogeneous society. Another of your compatriots at the Times wrote an article with a similar take away point about how novels and social rationales don’t mix, how they’re like...
...causing mutant huntingtin protein from brain cells by modifying the protein structure for autophagic degradation, a natural degradation process in cells. The introduction of a specific molecular fragment known as an acetyl group into the mutant proteins—a process also known as acetylation—is the key to triggering the destruction of excess huntingtin, according to the findings, which were published in the April 3 issue of Cell. “The novelty of our research is that it links acetylation to degradation, which hasn’t been shown before,” said Dimitri Krainc...