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...explain. I grew up in a suburb of Baltimore, listening to "urban contemporary"--a mix of soul, rhythm and blues, go go and hip hop. When I picked Harvard over Yale, Brown and Princeton, I thought that I had lucked out musically because it also meant I was choosing Boston over New Haven, Providence and Princeton. Boston was an urban center, I figured, and how could there be an urban center without "urban contemporary...
...teachers send kids home with mind-numbing math worksheets that are not even reviewed the next day. Too many are enamored of those unwieldy "projects" that seem to exasperate kids more than they instruct them and that lead to excessive parent involvement. For young students, the optimal arrangement would mix skill-building drills with creative tasks closely tied to what's being taught in the classroom--such as interviewing grandparents as a social-studies lesson or using soccer standings to teach rudimentary statistics...
Ambrosia on Huntington bills itself as a restaurant with French Provincial and Oriental foods. Those at Saturday's event said a careful and plentiful mix of spices in all sauces makes the cuisine especially unique...
Monica Mancini: On her eponymous debut album, Henry Mancini's daughter reveals a strong but sweet voice that rides a melody just so. The songs are Dad's--Moon River and others--with their mix of sophistication and schmaltz. Tart strings help keep Monica on the right side of the equation. The new label is PBS Records: music to drive Volvos...
That's even older than the celebrated Lucy, and comes from a time when humans still had many apelike characteristics. Best of all, this skeleton is almost complete; it even comes with a skull. There is no need to mix and match different specimens to guess what the entire creature looked like (Lucy, for example, was only 40% complete). Once the skeleton is fully excavated in a year or so, experts should be able to pin down the relative sizes of different body parts and see just which of the creature's features were apelike and which were human...