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...stage original was plenty entertaining, a portrait of two brilliant, conflicted men with something to prove: Nixon that he was a statesman, not a crook; Frost that he had the gravitas to bring a big man down. So how does that become a movie - one, moreover, that is essentially a making-of feature about a '70s TV show? Howard knew that to convey the particulars of what must seem like ancient history to younger viewers, he needed to move from the long-shot perspective of a play to the interviews' own visual style: alternating medium shots of Frost with blistering...
...were just there for decoration,” she says. “And when Julia Child gave her collection of books in 1990, it was still a feminist library with a fairly feminist staff. Believe me, I’m a card-carrying feminist, but I wanted to prove to myself that food and gender go together.” Despite the sub rosa discontent that pervaded the library in the early years of the collection, Haber persisted. In 2005, the Food Issue of The New Yorker credited Haber as having “invented the history of women...
...function property anymore.” Over time, as cells become worn out and become permanently damaged, more proteins are called away from their normal sites, leading more gene expression to go awry. This trend is part of the deterioration associated with aging. “To prove that SIRT1 has a direct role in lifespan you will need to generate a mouse where you over-express these proteins...and you look to see whether the mouse has a longer lifespan,” Mostoslavsky said. “This has not been done yet, but in lower level organisms...
...national heap.“It’s going to be a key game for us. We have a few injuries, so a few of the players have stepped up,” Brine said. “We have a lot to prove, not only with UNH, but in our season.”—Staff writer Kate Leist can be reached at kleist@fas.harvard.edu...
Numerous studies prove that over-consumption by the wealthiest nations poses enormous threats to the environment. In Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism, Richard Robbins discusses the enormous extent to which the production, processing and consumption of commodities use up limited reserves of natural resources and produce toxic byproducts, pollutants, and waste. Yet, as Robbins goes on to point out, fanatic consumerism receives the least attention of all the major causes for pollution and destruction for both political and economic reasons. Unchecked, commodity production continues to wreak havoc on the environment...