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...complex love they share, even as race stands between them. While this isn't unexplored territory, what makes this production a standout is Gien's impressive performance in creating 28 fully realized characters on a sparsely decorated stage. Through her expressive movements and creative vocalizations - most startlingly in rapid-fire exchanges between six-year old Elizabeth and her redoubtable, deep-voiced South African caretaker - Gien single-handedly fills the stage with the people, music and verdant countryside of South Africa...
...that would be the last time Yale would pull that close. The Crimson heated up from three-point range, as Monti, Peljto, and sophomore guard Bree Kelley drained three-pointers in rapid succession, while Smith added another for Yale in between, leaving the score at 44-33 with eight minutes left...
Vengeance came five days later. Two men arrived at Jalila Shahine's door in Bethlehem. All but their eyes were covered behind black face masks. One carried a pistol and wore the turquoise-and-black camouflage pants of the Palestinian Authority's Rapid Deployment Force. The other held a Kalashnikov. They grabbed Jalila's son Adnan, 38, and dragged him down the street. Jalila pleaded with the men not to take him. His hands bound behind his back, the terrified house painter cried to Jalila, "Don't leave me, Mother!" The man with the pistol pushed Jalila away and forced...
...truck plant under construction in Mississippi. While Ford, General Motors and Chrysler all saw sales decline last year, Nissan enjoyed an 11% increase. The company's luxury division, Infiniti, had its best U.S. sales year in history. "People were ready for this," Ghosn says with his usual rapid-fire urgency. "And we had to show quick victories to accelerate the number of people buying into our plan...
...process of discovering antimicrobials should speed up, thanks to the rapid sequencing of the genomes of disease-causing organisms. Among the latest conquests are the bacteria responsible for causing syphilis and leprosy. The genome of the parasite that causes malaria is also beginning to yield its secrets, including the exact genetic mutations that confer chloroquine resistance. Scientists are beginning to exploit what they know about the parasite's life cycle after it invades the red blood cells of the human body. Daniel Goldberg, a malaria researcher at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Chevy Chase, Md., is trying to figure...