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Hailing from the hamlet of Monroe, La., the Crimson’s point guard fits the Southern stereotype to a certain extent—she is anti-abortion (although, according to her friends, she respectfully won’t get into arguments about her politics), participates in Harvard’s Christian Bible study group and even hunts deer in her spare time (no, not in Cambridge). Moore has lived in Monroe all her life, and during her junior year of high school accepted a basketball scholarship to powerhouse Louisiana Tech. However, after two years of attending the school just...
...figure out why Type 2 diabetics are insulin resistant will probably be a candidate for a Nobel Prize. It's not a simple consequence of being overweight. Many obese people are not insulin resistant, and not everyone who is insulin resistant is overweight. Researchers at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, Calif., believe that at least part of the answer lies not in the pancreas but in the liver. In a study of mice published in the Nov. 13 issue of Nature, scientists identified a protein that tells the liver to favor the metabolism of fat over that of glucose...
...Beautiful Voice, Good Legs The 25-year career of Italian tenor Franco Corelli, who died in October, took him from La Scala in Milan to the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, where he performed on 368 occasions [MILESTONES, Nov. 10]. In an April 6, 1962, profile we traced his climb to opera's heights...
...naval engineer, Corelli did not start studying singing until he was 24 and learned most of what he knows by listening to recordings of famous singers. His professional career was begun 'by pure good luck' when he got the chance to sing opposite Maria Callas in Spontini's La Vestale on a La Scala opening night. For a while Corelli's extracurricular antics?he punched a spectator he thought had insulted him, stabbed basso Boris Christoff with a stage sword?drew attention away from his sizable gifts as a singer ... In Italy bobby-soxers periodically mob him at the stage...
...Houston Cassettes is a duo playing catchy, pop-rock, a la early Pavement and Guided by Voices. They create guitar pop with breezy melodies and humorous lyrics and remind us that songwriting can still be fun. A Wish for Fire, a trio of musicians with eclectic influences, creates what the band likes to call “romantic pop,” with tinges of blues, Motown, and of course, psychedelic rock. The band’s minimalist approach to music bares the songwriting underneath. International Pen Pal and The Casual Lean also perform. 9 p.m. Tickets...