Word: organisms
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...heart is a beautiful organ, and it's not one that I thought I'd ever be able to build in a dish.' DORIS A. TAYLOR, head of a University of Minnesota research team, on its ability to create a beating rat heart...
...Harvard or a student group. Instead, it uneasily straddles the two, and what results is a group where the adults hold the power and the students brown their noses getting as close to it as possible. In the absence of any real deed to the organization, the undergraduates of the IOP end up as neutered mandarins attending to the details of something outside their control, and lapping up the adornments of power they gain by proximity. There’s a reason The Crimson isn’t an organ of the Harvard Gazette: students are capable enough of expressing...
...symphony is a narrative depicting the phases of life in four movements. Particularly illustrative was the second movement, “Adagio assai,” which aims for the harmonies and rhythms of a funeral march. The various solos in the wind section evoked the solemn organ part in a funeral mass. Following this somber movement, the orchestra moved easily into the uplifting third movement and finale...
...announcement of the Prix Goncourt - one of more than 900 French literary prizes - was front-page news across the country. (It went to Gilles Leroy's novel Alabama Song.) Every French town of any size has its annual opera or theater festival, nearly every church its weekend organ or chamber-music recital...
...advisor, earth and planetary sciences professor Daniel P. Schrag. Sambu, who received the scholarship as a representative of his native Kenya, has a similarly impressive collection of activities, including membership in several African leadership clubs and a hobby of amateur acrobatics. His thesis is on biodegradable scaffolding for organ transplants. “My interest really would be to conduct research,” he said. “My particular interest is that it should have some impact in Kenya, and in most of the developing world.” Sambu said he hopes to work with a team...