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...popular imagination, Hawaii has no more potent a symbol than the hula dancer, usually a youthful beauty with a dreamy smile undulating to the rhythmic strums of a ukulele. Far different from the showbiz representations however, is the hula in Hawaii. In all of its sacred and ceremonial forms, the hula is an integrated system of poetry, movement and rhythm. The MIT performances displaced any Hollywoodish notions that the audience might have had, impressing upon them the beauty, power, and aloha imbued in the hula. When asked about his impressions after his first encounter with Hawaiian culture, MIT sophomore Mike...
...hard to keep someone as talented as Clapton down for an entire album, and there are a few songs on Pilgrim that work. One Chance has a potent, brooding soulfulness; another song, Sick and Tired, features grinding, growling guitar work by Clapton as well as some strong, swaggering vocals. Partway through the song, during a down-and-dirty guitar solo, when Clapton lets loose an "Ow!" you feel, palpably, his joyful sense of abandon in wallowing in blues sorrow. These two songs alone are almost worth the price of the whole album...
...mammals that the pheromonal chatter climaxes. Countless species--from wolves to musk ox--claim territory by urinating around their borders, an olfactory keep-off-the-grass sign if there ever was one. Male voles use urine as a potent aphrodisiac, excreting a chemical that causes females to ovulate within 48 hours. "Identify anything that's of biological significance to animals," says Rachel Herz of the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, "and it's usually mediated by scent...
LESS CAN BE MORE A new lower-dose estrogen pill--half as potent as what is commonly prescribed--is an effective alternative for many postmenopausal women...
...sports magazine promises "no swimsuits, no bikinis...no rehashes, no game stories, no press-box pontificating, no wistful reminiscences about the good old days." It's a direct shot at rival SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and serves notice that the No. 1 sports weekly (published by Time Inc.) is facing a potent challenger...