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...leaders with a sensitive question. Would the nuns be willing to do more than take psychological tests and give blood samples? he wondered. Would they be willing to donate their brains? Like a politician campaigning for votes, Snowdon traveled from one convent to the next, making his pitch. In Baltimore, Maryland, he remembers, Sister Mary was the first to endorse the project. "Sign me up!" she said. In the end, 678 nuns who were 75 or older enlisted. To them, participating in the study seemed an extension of their mission to care for the sick and the poor. "A person...
...disease, WHO officials warn that in the age of jet travel, the entire world may be at risk. "Everyone who breathes air, from Wall Street to the Great Wall of China, needs to worry about this risk," a WHO official said. To prevent this scenario, the organization made a pitch for and additional $100 million in foreign...
Technically, the lighting was masterful. The play begins in the dark during the robbery; as the viewer's eyes adjust, the scene becomes clearer and the viewer can make out the furtive burglar by faint light from a window. While stuck in pitch black, the viewer empathizes with Ata and her fear: however, this is the only time in the play one feels any empathy for any of the characters. However, the dramatic silences were violated by the annoying and incessant buzzing hum of the lights...
Speculation reached a fever pitch last November when Chuck Shramek, an amateur astronomer based in Houston, Texas, announced on a nationwide radio talk show that he had photographed a "Saturn-like object" that seemed to be following in Hale-Bopp's wake. Shramek's breathless claim elevated Hale-Bopp fantasies from supermarket tabloids to the mainstream press and generated thousands of posts to message boards and astronomy home pages on the Internet. One fast-spreading rumor had it that the object was an alien spacecraft four times the size of Earth...
Wilbur recalls that LeAnn started singing songs like Jesus Loves Me and You Are My Sunshine when she was just 18 months old. He says even then, unlike most infants (and, frankly, many adults), she could "carry a pitch.'' "I've got it on tape," he says, in case there are any disbelievers out there. Says LeAnn: "[The tapes are] really funny because you can understand what I'm saying when I'm singing, but when I'm talking, you can't understand a word...