Word: mucking
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...showing just how incompletely formed a child's brain truly is. "We now know from imaging studies that frontal lobes, which are vital to executive functions like managing feelings and thought, don't fully mature until age 30," says Hinshaw. That's a lot of time for drugs to muck around with cerebral clay...
...Dukas', and was much beyond anything the Pierian has attempted before. Yet it was rendered with at least as much feeling and as good technique as the programs of the recent annual concerts. The concert was attended by a very large audience, including such eminent musicians as Dr. Karl Muck, Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra; Mr. Max Zach, Conductor of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra; and Mr. Chalmers Clifton, Conductor of the Cecelia Society...
This past weekend, the Winthrop House Art Studio opened its doors, giving Winthrop students the opportunity to muck around in acrylic paints to their hearts’ content. That Winthrop House has gone this far without such a space is a testament to the serious marginalization of the visual arts at Harvard. It’s time that Harvard acknowledge and address this increasingly apparent issue...
...powerful, ethereal, or even trippy melodies, as in earlier trance before the whole genre went to corporate hell. Rather, these are the sort of cumbersome, echo-laden melodies that typify modern film scores. In fact, the whooshing sound effects, smiley-face synths and ham-fisted guitars generate a condescending muck so leaden that they even render the album’s joyless and deflated grooves a pleasant distraction—no small achievement...
...Euro-Asia is raked through the muck, the concern now is that other listed private Chinese companies will be splattered. A UBS Warburg index of 20 of these so-called "private chips" has fallen 10% since it was inaugurated in January 2001. That's far less than the 45% fall of Hong Kong's benchmark Hang Seng Index. But p-chips plunged three percentage points since the Yang scandal broke. Because of the lack of transparency and secrecy among Mainland companies, "it is quite difficult to sort out which are the reliable ones and which are the crooks," says Willis...