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...could say the visionary geneticist had a clear genetic edge. Capecchi's grandmother was a painter, his uncle a renowned physicist, and his mother Lucy Ramberg an expat American poet living in a chalet in the Italian Alps when Mario was born in 1937. She had fallen in with a group of bohemian writers who believed, her son says with just a trace of bemusement, that "they could wipe out Fascism and Nazism with a pen." After the Gestapo came in 1941 to take her to Dachau, Mario landed on the streets. He was 4 years...
...when American soldiers liberated Dachau, Lucy went hunting for her son. She scoured hospital records, searching for more than a year before she tracked him down. It was on his 9th birthday, Oct. 6, 1946, that the mother he scarcely recognized arrived, a new Tyrolean outfit in hand, including the hat with the feather. She took him to Rome, where he had his first bath in six years, and ultimately to the New World, where they settled in a Quaker commune outside Philadelphia...
...Since May this year, the College has had a mysterious change of heart regarding alcohol on campus. For years, students and College have maintained an amicable balance: You don’t mother us, we don’t bother you. But now the honeymoon is over...
...game might elicit a new level of parental disapproval, since it looks like it may end in gunshot wounds. The gritty, choppy video, shot in black and white, relies on close-up shots and attempts to create a hostile T.I. that not even a mother could love. the rapper’s dueling identities—the commercial T.I. and the rawer T.I.P.—against each other. This track is meant to remind listeners that T.I. has street cred and should be feared, as well as loved, by fans. While the video’s style takes pains...
...What behaviors did you pick up from your father and mother? --Kyle Kreutzberger, Frackville, Pa.As a child, I was like my dad. We had similar hobbies. I always loved to be outdoors and play soccer. I would ride my bike with him while he ran. My sister seemed more like my mom then. Now, I think I am more like my mom. We have the same passions for teaching and writing. My mannerisms are more like hers. So I would say a little of both - I have my dad's sense of humor and my mom's demeanor...