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...Pythons' youth, did a really bright schoolboy aim for Oxford or Cambridge? The reason - at least to those of us who know more about the Brit entertainment scene than any other aspect of U.K. society - was to perform in the university drama societies and meet people who could get you into the theater...
...pretty much the same, and were distinguished mainly by how they were hooked up to each other. It turns out, however, that brain cells, like other cells in the body, show a diverse array of gene expression patterns, meaning that different cells use different genes at different times to perform their complex functions. "Under the microscope, neurons look the same, but in terms of gene expression, it looks like there are differences," says Foltz. "This has opened up whole new fields for cognitive neuroscientists to understand what makes the [neurons] that go to the eye different from the ones that...
...economic impacts of immigration.” In contrast to traditional views that immigrant labor drives down wages and negatively impacts the local economy, the study concluded that it, in effect, increases the wages of native workers by freeing them from traditional household tasks that they would normally perform. “Kremer and Watt argue that as more immigrant women serve in household positions, more high-skilled native women are therefore available to join the labor market, driving down relative wages among high-skilled workers and reducing the disparity in wages between low- and high-skilled workers...
...Sherrod Brown (D) v. Senator Mike DeWine (R): This race will say a lot about how both parties will perform at the polls in 2006, and perhaps 2008 as well. That's because there's nothing particularly compelling about the personal stories of either one of these candidates; they're both career politicians - DeWine served in the state senate, the U.S. House and was lieutenant governor, while Brown was a longtime state representative and the Ohio secretary of state...
...Crimson did see some improvement over the course of the tournament, as the team’s total of 297 in the first round was the worst the team would perform all weekend...