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...School, Divinity School, Adams House, Kirkland House, Bertram Hall, and Comstock Hall.The group lost little time in visiting notable Cambridge and Boston locales.During their six and a half day stay, the delegates saw as much of Cambridge and Boston as possible—they visited John Hancock Building, the Museum of Fine Arts, the Boston Commons, Widener Library and the Yard. In addition, smaller groups paid visits to hospitals, a reform school, Newton High School, and a Polaroid-Land factory. In addition, they met with Dean McGeorge Bundy to discuss American-Soviet student exchange programs, attended a closed luncheon...
...pupil and lover. In 1900, a year after the death of her first husband, Costelloe married Berenson and the couple moved into I Tatti.APOGEE AND DEATHWidely regarded as the preeminent authority on Renaissance art, Berenson published several books on the Italian Renaissance and advised a number of museums and collectors in the United States, including most notably Isabella Stewart Gardner. Berenson once said famously that most of the major Italian pictures in America entered with his stamp on their passports.In the 1930s, despite having converted to Roman Catholicism, Berenson faced insecurity, first under Fascist authorities and later under the Nazis...
...Last week's chart topper, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, lost about 53% of its steam, coming in second with a still decent $25.5 million. Smithsonian did what sequels often do: pull a great first weekend from brand recognition, then subside more severely than the original. That's the rule to which there are few exceptions. The current exception, Star Trek, was the only one of the session's top six holdovers to drop less than 50% from last week, enabling it to become the first 2009 release to cross the $200 million mark at the North...
...million, first weekend 2. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, $25.5 million; $105.3 million, second week 3. Drag Me to Hell, $16.6 million, first weekend 4. Terminator Salvation, $16.1 million; $90.7 million, second week 5. Star Trek, $12.8 million; $209.5 million, fourth week 6. Angels & Demons, $11.2 million; $104.8 million, third week 7. Dance Flick, $4.9 million; $19.2 million, second week 8. X-Men Origins: Wolverine, $3.9 million; $170.9 million, fifth week 9. Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, $1.9 million; $50 million, fifth week 10. Obsessed, $665,000; $67.5 million, sixth week...
That widely accepted truth might be coming undone, however, thanks to a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. According to the authors, evolutionary biologists John Finarelli of the University of Michigan and John Flynn of the American Museum of Natural History, there's a much murkier link than we thought between big brains and big societies. As it turns out, it was our favorite nonhuman critters - dogs - that threw off previous data...