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...scientists always agree. "Folic acid is a perfect example," says Rima Apple, a historian at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and author of Vitamania: Vitamins in American Culture. In 1989 the recommended dietary allowance for folic acid was cut from 400 micrograms for all adults to 200 micrograms for men and 180 micrograms for women, because that was the lowest amount that would stave off a nutritional deficiency. At the same time, however, new studies were showing that higher doses of folic acid could prevent crippling birth defects during pregnancy and ward off strokes and heart attacks in older...
Merrill was gleefully eclectic: he wrote sonnets and sestinas and haikus and epigrams; he worked in heroic couplets and terza rima and the Rubaiyat stanza. But he was perhaps most himself when fabricating his own unorthodox verse forms. He was a born matchmaker, tirelessly contriving a happy marriage of form and content, and the result was a heady range of tonal variations. A Merrill poem might begin like this...
Even more impressive than PInsky's infusion of life into the translation is that fact that he is also faithful to the Inferno's original interlocking rhyme scheme, called terza rima (aba, bcb, cdc, etc). Pinsky avoids he possible pitfalls of this demanding form and triumphs with crisp and inventive rhymes that not only meet the demands of form but also bring the poem to life...
Already you hear echoes of Foster's own Little Man Tate, as well as E.T., The Miracle Worker, The Wild Child, Every Man for Himself and God Against All, Forrest Gump and Green Mansions (the last with Audrey Hepburn memorably miscast as Rima the Bird Girl). Nell is a fable of emergence and transcendence. Written by William Nicholson and Mark Handley, from Handley's play Idioglossia, it illustrates the familiar movie moral that wounded creatures are powerful ones, with powerful lessons to teach those who would presume to educate them. It's humanism at its most Panglossian. But Michael Apted...
Students on the panel also strongly rebuffed the protestors. Second-year student Rima Hartzenbusch said, "This is not on the agenda...this is not the Faculty Appointments Committee...