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Bone Machine, tom Waits' latest album, is a landmark for American pop music. Waits presents a stark series of bluesy songs that are innovative and profound. The most striking thing about the album is its spare sound. Waits strips down the blues to create a haunting timbre of heavy, hollow drums, chilling guitars and growling vocals...
...1980s, when M.I.T.'s Hynes noticed a resemblance between research coming from obscure labs working on cancer, immunology, developmental biology and hematology. Hynes began to see that these researchers were all exploring aspects of cell adhesion. In 1987 he drew together these separate lines of research and published a landmark paper in the journal Cell that finally connected the dots. "All of a sudden, these fields fused; they were one," says Hynes...
President Neil L. Rudenstine announced last week a landmark University-city joint effort to strengthen Cambridge's high school biology program...
Perhaps in reaction, a new sense of realism has become the vogue in Africa, and the slogan for the continent's chastened '90s might be "Learn to Walk Before You Try to Run." In 1989 the World Bank issued a landmark report titled Sub-Saharan Africa: From Crisis to Sustainable Growth. It warned that if Africa's slide into underdevelopment continued, some countries would soon find themselves in worse poverty than the most stricken Asian lands...
...meantime, creative black entrepreneurs like John Bryant are filling the gap. Just days after the riots, Bryant formed Operation Hope, a nonprofit community-development organization. The next day he secured the $370,000 needed to rebuild a South Central landmark, a pharmacy owned by Gilbert Mathieu, destroyed in the riots. Bryant's goal for the next year is to finance similar deals for 100 businesses with average loans of $200,000. "If we don't create other Gil Mathieus, then we shouldn't be around," he says. Jenkins, for one, is confident they will. "In the '60s," he says...