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...swordfisherman or a pornstar—I just fill in the gaps.” Beyond his routine “gap-filling,” Reilly says he took several steps to ensure authenticity in his role. “I had a rehearsal space near my house, and we would go on the weekends and jam. I got used to being the front man of the band, which was incredible. We started with the 50s and then ended up with songs like ‘Take My Hand,’” he says, referring...
Avant-garde Germancomposer Karlheinz Stockhausen liked to say he was born on a planet near the star Sirius, and for fans of his abstract, complex music, it was a plausible theory. He made his name in the 1950s as a pioneer of electronic sound and went on to compose such big, vivid pieces as Light, a 29-hour, seven-part opera that took him 30 years to finish, and Groups, played by three separate orchestral ensembles at once. An influence on musicians from John Lennon to Bjrk, Stockhausen made news in 2001 for a comment suggesting that...
Truck bombs near U.N. offices kill dozens...
...links in brain may cause dyslexia A Harvard study has suggested a physical basis for dyslexia. The team mapped the brains of six sufferers of the genetic disorder periventricular nodular heterotopia (PNH), who show many of the symptoms of dyslexia. A normal brain has grey matter or nerve cells near its surface and white matter which connects the grey matter deeper inside. The team found that the brains they imaged were more disordered. They posited that this was the cause of reduced fluent reading skills.The study was led by Harvard Medical School professor Christopher A. Walsh, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical...
...this point, the FBI and police departments have nowhere near enough people who could convincingly work undercover in terrorism cases. "The number of undercover agents is minuscule; the number of confidential sources is much larger," says Art Cummings, deputy assistant director of counterterrorism...