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...Rosella Hightower, 88, a former ballerina, founded one of the world's most famous ballet schools and one of the art form's most notable prizes...
...He’s not the only one. Before coming to Harvard, Moore had also performed with well-known companies throughout the world, including the American Ballet Theatre in New York, the Royal Ballet in London, the Salzburg International Ballet Academy, and Ecole Supérieure de Danse Cannes Rosella Hightower in France. After graduation, she turned down a contract to dance professionally in favor of pursuing academics...
...yellow python belts were wrapped around and around Grecian-style silk jersey dresses. By the time Gucci designer Frida Giannini opened her 6pm show on a mirrored runway, the appearance of a tight, high-waisted weight-lifting kind of belt was no surprise. A few hours later Rosella Tarabini, the jolly designer of the Anna Molinari label, coincidentally included a few of the men?s style belts in her micro-mini jersey looks. By Thursday morning there was an all out run on belts from the Via Montenapoleone as every fashion stylist began wrapping and cinching their look...
Much of this knowledge comes from a single, powerful piece of ongoing research: the aptly named Nun Study, of which Sisters Ada and Rosella are part. Since 1986, University of Kentucky scientist David Snowdon has been studying 678 School Sisters--painstakingly researching their personal and medical histories, testing them for cognitive function and even dissecting their brains after death. Over the years, as he explains in Aging with Grace (Bantam; $24.95), a moving, intensely personal account of his research that arrives in bookstores this week, Snowdon and his colleagues have teased out a series of intriguing--and quite revealing--links...
...those in speech, memory and behavior. And to ensure that the sisters' generous gift to science will continue to educate others, Snowdon is trying to have the brain bank and archive records permanently endowed. That way, future generations will continue to benefit from lessons that women like Sisters Ada, Rosella and Nicolette are teaching all of us about how to age with grace and good health...