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...past, MIT students have expressed fear that a tragedy like this could occur on Memorial Drive because of the lack of streetlights and crosswalks...
Thaler was experiencing a phenomenon that anesthesiologists delicately call "awareness." These unexpected wake-ups occur in at least 40,000 of the nation's 20 million annual surgeries, according to Emory University anesthesiologist Peter Sebel, who has studied the problem. In most cases the pain-killers keep working, and all the patient feels is the unnerving pressure of a scalpel cutting and scraping. But, Sebel estimates conservatively, in at least 400 such awareness accidents, the pain breaks through the veil of drugs. It's possible, say other experts, that the number of patients who wake up each year to excruciating...
...audience in Symphony Hall on Sunday was undoubtedly seeking the "fire and flair" of Gatti's technique promised by the concert program. Like any fire, some smoldering must occur before the flames actually rise. Perhaps it was the amber-suffused ambience of the concert hall, or simply the burden of starting anew in the midst of a frenzied three-week tour that dampened Gatti's artistry in the first piece. Nevertheless, the true focus of the night--the music and its performance by Britain's national orchestra--remained unmistakably passionate...
Jiang: Some nights I cannot get to sleep--for instance, when natural disasters occur. Despite modern science and technology in agriculture, we still mainly depend on how the weather goes. I owe a lot of special thanks to my wife. She tends to persuade me that, after all, I have to eat and try to get some sleep because the next day I have to continue working...
Groundlings' best moments occur when it rises to this level of social commentary. In one scene, Roulleau defends himself by arguing that since Hamlet is fictional and scripted, he shares no responsibility in its events. Clamence responds by instructing the actors to portray some scenes from everyday life: two acquaintances exchange conventional pleasantries; two people vie to see who will hold the door for the other; a student pleads for an extension with her professor. As the audience listens to these stylized dialogues, we realize that Hamlet is no more scripted than the rehearsed set-pieces of our own private...