Word: magical
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...save one another and themselves. Take the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News, or CBS Radio's venture with AOL and Yahoo. As the New York Times suggests, such collusion might be the only way, though, as the authors of this report make clear, there is no magic bullet. But if the solutions aren't obvious, the report's overall message is: Will the future leaders of journalism please, please stand...
...Rockefeller University in New York City have some new ideas - and no shortage of optimism - about how to find the holy grail of AIDS research. Their approach to vaccine development, outlined online on March 15 in the journal Nature, is to abandon the as yet fruitless search for a magic bullet - which zeros in on just a single target to halt the virus - and instead try to mimic the body's natural, if rare and more diffuse, defense against the virus...
...friends personally begged Bernstein to come give the speech at Adams House. Bernstein, who knew Gilbert’s parents as violinists in the Philharmonic, agreed on two conditions: the attendance of then President Derek Bok and two bottles of Scotch. Reminiscing about the magic of his experiences at Harvard, Gilbert remarked, “it feels as though it could only happen here.” Before earning his position at the Philharmonic, Gilbert conducted symphonies in Cincinnati, Santa Fe, and Stockholm. One audience member asked him for his opinion of the state of arts in America today...
...only is this a unique and compelling theme for a book of poetry, it also provides a framework in which the poet’s less outlandish imagery can at times be evocative and startling. The collection’s most moving lines, from “Sympathetic Magic,” are an illustration of this: “We fell out below human range, / with a kitten’s commitment to sleep, / in a paired lightening, peaceful, like the spotted / leopard lying with its unfinished gazelle.”There are several nice touches here, such...
...from mildly impressive to beyond bizarre. The audience got a little too involved, chanting, “Blow it, blow it, blow it,” referring to balloon animals. Christophe A. T. Van ’12 charmed the crowd with his adorable British accent and mind-reading magic tricks...