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Schnairsohn employs a flashing applause sign to help heighten the sense of meta-theatre. This works well during this early stages of the wonderful first scene, but over the course of the play it grows overly gimmicky; ostensibly mimicking the notion of an impossibly receptive live studio audience while in fact becoming nearly dependent...
PHILADELPHIA: A woman is 30 percent more likely to develop breast cancer if she has had an abortion, according to a new study in the October Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. Using a research technique known as meta-analysis, researchers collected information from 23 studies involving 25,967 women with breast cancer and 34,977 without it then reanalyzed the old data to find out how many had had abortions. "Although this study is not as good as others that have come before it," says TIME's science writer Christine Gorman, "there is definitely something there that needs...
Perhaps the Cornerstone Theater Company's production of "California Seagull," a recent adaptation of Chekhov's classic relocated to the Golden State, deliberately reproduces all the traits of Konstantin's play. Maybe it's a multidimensional meta-commentary on the original which adds new facets to the nexus between fact and fiction. Or maybe it's just an enthusiastic and imaginative enterprise that gets a little carried away with its "alternadrama" image. Whichever way you look at it, "California Seagull" suffers from an overdose of avant-garde. But there's something in it. And Nina is excellent...
...until 1992 scientists didn't know of any convincing evidence that men were experiencing reproductive problems on a large scale. Then came the groundbreaking report by a Danish endocrinologist, Dr. Niels Skakkebaek of the National University Hospital in Copenhagen. Skakkebaek and his colleagues did what is called a meta-analysis: they combined the results of 61 separate studies of sperm count and quality over the past 50 years in men around the world, and found that the average sperm count had fallen from about 113 million per ml in 1938 to 66 million...
...added a shocked Nathan Lump '96. Clearly Lump is not among the Harvard minority which believes that clothing is a harmful artificial construct that is far better avoided in favor of the purity of nudity, the ultimate in meta-fashion...