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...Crick, always restless, decided there were greater opportunities in embryology, the study of how a single fertilized egg develops into an adult organism. A decade later, he made another major change by moving to the Salk Institution in La Jolla, Calif., to explore the brain. He began by looking at dreams and soon shocked Freudians by concluding that dreams were simply the brain's nightly housecleaning to make room for new memories...
...casting is almost too good to be true: Terry Gilliam, that most quixotic of directors, sets out to make a new film version of Cervantes' Don Quixote de la Mancha. Gilliam is a guy with a paradoxical, occasionally self-destructive desire to make what are essentially art movies on huge budgets. Sometimes the results are entrancing (Time Bandits, The Fisher King). Sometimes they are disastrous (Brazil involved him in a famously acrimonious final-cut fight with the studio; The Adventures of Baron Munchausen went insanely over budget). You never know what you will get when he sets forth...
...young users who send billions of text messages every month and who feed a thriving industry that pitches everything from mobile games to cartoon-themed phone covers to children. Phone makers say they're trying to take a responsible approach to these concerns, rather than simply denying them, a la big tobacco. "We were established to contribute to research on just these kinds of issues," notes Milligan, who says it's important to test this preliminary research to confirm or disprove it. Salford agrees, and is careful to emphasize that he thinks mobiles have saved far more lives than they...
...LA CENERENTOLA. Cinderella makes an appearance in an unlikely spot—the Dunster House Dining Hall—in the Dunster Opera Society’s production of La Cenerentola. The retelling of the classic fairy tale features music by eighteenth-century Italian composer Luigi Rossini. With performances beginning at 8:30, glass slipper-wearing audience members can rest assured they’ll have plenty of time to return home before midnight, footwear and carriage still intact. Thursday, Feb. 13 through Saturday, Feb. 22 at 8:30 p.m. Tickets $8, $7 students, $6 Dunster House residents...
...LOST IN LA MANCHA. Visionary director Terry Gilliam’s ill-fated recent effort to make a Don Quixote movie is chronicled in this new documentary. After a difficult pre-production period, Gilliam’s film is slapped with a malicious case of Murphy’s Law once it begins shooting. Six days of location work, flash floods, screaming jets and an injured star force the production to shut down, leaving insurance agents to smooth over the chaos and Gilliam fans to ponder what might have been. Jeff Bridges, who starred in Gilliam?...