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That's little solace for Farmer, who until last month was employed as a security specialist at Silicon Graphics in Mountain View, California. In March, when his bosses learned that he intended to unleash SATAN into the world, they gave him an ultimatum: publish if you want to perish. He published. Now he's on the market, looking...
...Evropa Music by Nigel Osborne; Libretto by Goran Simic The necessity of the arts for the survival of dignity and the human spirit is nowhere more apparent than in Sarajevo. In nearly three years under siege, Sarajevans have refused to allow the Bosnian capital's artistic soul to perish. An emotional highlight at the 11th annual Sarajevo Winter Festival last week was a one-time-only performance of an operetta by Britain's Nigel Osborne and Bosnian poet Goran Simic. With President Alija Izetbegovic in the audience, the production (also seen on national television) was complete with soloists, the city...
...weirdness that is not adequately fulfilled. Although one of the characters (played by Sami Shumays who does a convincing job as a drunk) has a leg amputated, the bizarreness of the characters' personze is not fully exploited. They are too relaxed for people who could at any moment perish...
...have been part of a--perish the thought--similar community," Rosenberg said. "The specific traditions are different, but all the great ideals about liberal and professional education and scholarship and research are the same...
While treading cautiously in many areas, the NIH panel is supportive of several innovative lines of research. For example, biologists have learned how to trick unfertilized animal eggs into developing as if they had been fertilized. Without the sperm's DNA, however, these so-called parthenotes quickly perish. One tentative NIH proposal would allow scientists to produce parthenotes from human eggs. Such experiments could yield information on how embryonic cells influence each other's growth...