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...become consumed by the action on stage. Within this frame of reference, Michael Frayn's Copenhagen is quite a bore. It has a remarkable capacity to keep the audience in its place. Dealing with issues of physical and historical certainty through a meeting between the physicists Neils Bohr (Phillip Bosco) and Werner Heisenberg (Michael Cumpsty), the show is performed on a bare set designed to resemble a Bohr model of an atom. It would be a real shame, though, to write off this show. In fact, if given the attention it deserves, the play proves as thought-provoking...
...platypus, hunting scenes-have been found in Sydney's sandstone outcrops, mute reminders, some of them 5,000 years old, that progress comes at a price. Modern estimates put as many as 750,000 Aborigines on the Australian continent in 1788; the first governor of New South Wales, Arthur Phillip, thought some 1,500 lived between Botany Bay to the south and the mouth of the Hawkesbury River to the north. He knew them all as Eora, although they were several distinct tribes: Gayimai, Cadigal, Wangal, Walumeda. Within a year of making contact with the British arrivals, half of them...
...Harvard's yield is small because academic researchers are allowed to use the technology free of license fees, according Medical School Genetics Department Chair Phillip Leder, the co-creator of the mouse...
...member committee currently includes Phillip Griffiths, Director of the Institute for Advanced Study, Frank Rhodes, president emeritus of Cornell and Alison Richard, Yale's provost...
...Phillip Coory...