Word: neighborhood
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...House and Neighborhood Development Program (HAND) launched a federally-funded effort yesterday that will pay Harvard work-study students to read to children in local elementary schools in hopes of promoting literacy...
...weeks after conception, they would hear an astonishing racket. Inside the womb, long before light first strikes the retina of the eye or the earliest dreamy images flicker through the cortex, nerve cells in the developing brain crackle with purposeful activity. Like teenagers with telephones, cells in one neighborhood of the brain are calling friends in another, and these cells are calling their friends, and they keep calling one another over and over again, "almost," says neurobiologist Carla Shatz of the University of California, Berkeley, "as if they were autodialing...
More important, the British don't overcompensate by caricaturing the native milieu of these very American plays. In Hall's Streetcar the run-down New Orleans neighborhood where Blanche finds her sister Stella living could probably do without the roar of a passing train drowning out the dialogue every few minutes (a Streetcar Named Deafening). But nearly everything else in the production is delicate and understated, starting with Lange's touching and unfussy portrayal of Blanche. Toby Stephens (the son of actress Maggie Smith), an improbably fine-boned actor to be playing Stanley Kowalski, misses the brutishness (and the humor...
...even if Hill could have remained, he would have faced a glitizier, more rarefied neighborhood than the one he remembers...
Their own Harvard Street neighborhood is buzzing with contractors's pickups coming in and out of driveways, rotten wood getting torn off roofs and air-powered hammer-guns lining up rows of shingles...