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...they allowed the extra time. You name it, you could buy it: day-by-day lessons from kindergarten through high school, $600 state-of-the-art microscopes, fiddle lessons, membership in home schooling bowling and sewing leagues, natural oils meant to purify young minds. "Mom, look, they have owl pellets," one boy squealed over the crowd. I followed to find a biological supply booth ready to outfit those parents who'd delved into dissection. Also on sale: preserved sharks, sheep brains and frogs...
...Farnborough, the same techniques are helping fighter pilots fly jets with their minds. But the place where brains and computers are truly coming together is in the lab of Miguel Nicolelis, associate professor of neurobiology at the Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina. He has trained two owl monkeys to control a robotic arm via brain signals - giving glimpses of how the virtual and physical worlds may merge...
...keep an open door.” Instrumental pieces are scattered throughout, lending a wordlessly comforting tone to the album. “The Ookpik Waltz” is a gentle, plaintive piece that perfectly captures a sense of peaceful longing (tradition has it that the Ookpik was an owl who carried away the souls of the dead on their final journey). “Girl From the North Country” is an example of music moving full circle. With the aid of guest musicians Jerry Douglas and James Hutchinson on dobro and bass, Altan gives its take...
White. Evon Peter, a Gwich'in Native American from the southern fringes of the wildlife refuge, stands atop a hill and looks out over the whiteness. He starts naming it: "Vatr' agwaahgwail"--the line of a caribou trail. "Vatthaih ik"--Snowy Owl Mountain. "Shih han"--Brown Bear River. Each part of the landscape has a name and a story, often related to the caribou the Gwich'in depend on for food. As he speaks, the whiteness comes alive. "When I stand here, I feel I am free," says Peter, a staunch opponent of oil drilling. "Here nature is the only...
...Kelly '01, the president of the Owl, said that while other clubs' initiations are amusing, final clubs are about more than hijinks...