Word: loss
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Looking to escape the collegiate mayham of Harvard Yale? India Song, a play by Marguerite Duras about love, memory, loss and colonialism in 1930s Calcutta goes up this Thursday at the Loeb Ex. The show runs through Saturday at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are free and can be picked up at the Loeb...
...list goes on to include virtually any disorder that involves the loss of normal cells: stroke, muscular dystrophy, spinal-cord injury, kidney or liver disease, blindness caused by degeneration of the retina. Stem cells could also provide drug companies with a limitless supply of normal human tissues to use in testing the toxicity of new drugs. "This is a fairly unique resource," says Johns Hopkins team leader John Gearhart, in a masterpiece of understatement...
...enforcement agencies have learned about its success rate and unusual approach in dealing with seemingly intractable clients, it has become a model for similar programs from Florida to Thailand. Nonetheless, just when it has so much to crow about, Genesis House finds itself in financial jeopardy. The loss of half a million dollars in federal funds this year has forced the agency into an unexpected scramble to maintain its programs; it has had to lay off about half its 25 paid staff members, and use of volunteers has tripled...
...California, Republican BOB DORNAN (4) ran against Representative Loretta Sanchez, claiming his antiabortion views made him the "only Latino in the race" and calling himself "Mr. Immigrant Man." Might have worked better if he hadn't wrongly blamed his 1996 loss on voter fraud by illegal aliens...
...different part of the stage, Leonora appears to reminisce about her youth spent manipulating aristocrats and complains that her daughter's methods of seduction lack style. This commentary transforms the couple's reunion into a pathetic act and infuses the play with the odor of decay and loss...