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...same time, the author keeps a running commentary on the nature of history and storytelling. Martinez bases the shifting structure of his story on the idea that "nothing is like anything else, nothing is ever just one story, but a net that each person weaves without knowing the overall pattern." Martinez realizes that the work of other artists who have attempted to capture Evita is part of this patchwork, and he mentions fellow Argentinean writers Rodolfo Walsh and Jorge Luis Borges frequently. He even discusses the opera by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, calling it precisely the simplification...
...there are stars in the Milky Way. Also in place are a trillion glial cells, named after the Greek word for glue, which form a kind of honeycomb that protects and nourishes the neurons. But while the brain contains virtually all the nerve cells it will ever have, the pattern of wiring between them has yet to stabilize. Up to this point, says Shatz, "what the brain has done is lay out circuits that are its best guess about what's required for vision, for language, for whatever." And now it is up to neural activity--no longer spontaneous...
...This pattern continued for the rest of the game as Harvard had only three players reaching double-digits while Lehigh had five...
Five and a half years ago, as the American Legion first noticed an unusual pattern of illness among our Gulf War vets, we made an observation that Mark Thompson only mentioned in his article on Persian Gulf War syndrome [NATION, Dec. 23]. It was clear to us that a variety of factors had to be making our veterans ill. Not every sick vet was in the same place at the same time. In fact, significant numbers left the Middle East before the war started or arrived there some time after the fighting stopped...
...from word processing and spreadsheets to Web browsers and content. The company is integrating its Internet Explorer browser and Microsoft Network content into its Windows operating system, a process that will culminate with the "Active Desktop" planned for Windows 97, due out in a few months. Critics see a pattern of Microsoft's playing hardball to make life difficult for competing operating systems and applications: Microsoft Word has been buggy on Macintosh operating systems, users have found it tricky to make Netscape their default browser when going back and forth from Windows to the Microsoft Network, and application developers have...