Word: organisms
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...other areas XTC's songs sound entirely fresh and vibrant. "Your Dictionary" has an ominous underlying piano part that gives way to sleigh bells and picture-perfect harmonies. The pastoral-like "Greenman" wouldn't be out of place at a jovial medieval formal dance, and "Fruit Nut" has an organ background that sounds like the theme music from a TV show on Nickelodeon. Apple Venus Vol.1 is a masterpiece of beautiful, engaging pop music. Perfect harmonies and lushly orchestrated songs promise to bring listeners to new levels of XTC. Annie K. Zaleski
...Frosh Weekend in 1995, two Harvard Medical School students lured a prospective College student to a party near the Longwood campus. Slipping heavy sedatives into the prefrosh's drink, the physicians-in-training then dragged him to a laboratory classroom, removed his kidneys for sale to an illegal organ-donation agent, and placed his kidney-less body in a bathtub packed with ice in a motel room in Allston. The unsuspecting high school senior woke up just in time to follow the instructions, written in lipstick on his chest: "Call 9-1-1 or you will die." The two medical...
...grade biology, when testosterone was clearly the boy hormone and estrogen the girl hormone. Not only are both hormones present in both sexes, but estrogen is a real busybody, acting on just about every kind of tissue there is. Angier likens it to chocolate, "since almost every two-bit organ or tissue wants a bite out of it." Men deficient in estrogen aren't more manly; they're more prone to such diseases as osteoporosis. Women produce testosterone, and may even need it for sexual arousal. But despite its reputation as the roughneck's Power Bar, scientists can find...
...litters. Angier reports on data, still disputed, that suggest human females are more likely to get pregnant from sex with an adulterous lover than from sex with their spouse. Besides, if anatomy has anything to do with destiny, you would expect the human female, with her unique ecstasy organ--the clitoris--to be the sexual powerhouse of the species. The man's penis, after all, has to double as a urine-and-semen-delivery tube and contains only half as many nerve fibers as the more refined and specialized clitoris...
Tired of lunching in Loker? Grab your fly-by, but ditch the atmosphere: the Harvard University Art Museum presents a Midday Organ Recitalwith organist Murray Forbes Somerville and trumpet player John Almeida.Adolphus Busch Hall, 29 Kirkland St. 495-4544. 12:15 p.m. FREE...