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Defying a powerful musical trend among musicians of his generation, Bernstein doggedly stuck to the doctrine of tonality—which centers a piece of music around major and minor chords based on a single key—as opposed to the 12-tone scale, which was being popularized by composer Arnold Schoenberg...
...most recent crisis of note occurs in Hungary. Its capital city Budapest was plagued by its worst violence since the days of Eisenhower, Khrushchev, and Elvis Presley. The last time Budapest saw rioting of the same scale as it did in mid-September it was directed at the imperialism of the, now thankfully defunct, Soviet Union and was repressed at the cost of several thousand lives. The proximate cause of the most recent rioting, which left over a two hundred people injured and turned large sections of the capital city into a “battleground...
...Often medicines target particular genetic receptors, rather than giving us any idea about the background complexity of cancer,” Parsons said. “Computational advances in studying gene expression have really allowed us to scale things up and understand the pathways behind groups of genes with similar functions...
...smaller scale, many restaurants in Harvard Square are taking the initiative to eliminate trans fats from their menus. Very few use partially hydrogenated oil, even for foods generally seen as less healthy, such as pizza or burgers. Legal Seafood and Pizzeria Uno are among the restaurants leading the elimination of trans fats in the United States, according to their websites. Au Bon Pain is now also offering many trans fat-free options...
...Protection Administration are actually encouraging grassroots groups to expose environmental wrongdoing. "The problem isn't the limited space available for actions in China's civil society," he says. "[There is] room to take action if you are creative. You have to be bold." After all, he says, given the scale of the environmental problems China faces, "it's not as if we have much time left...