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...part of the quail's brain that I can transfer into a chicken that makes the chicken move its head like a quail when it's crowing like a chicken," said Evan Balaban, the experimental neurobiologist who performed the study. In another experiment, Balaban made a chicken sing like a quail by implanting into a fetal chicken brain cells which control quail sound patterns. The altered birds, Balaban said, remained chicken-like in most respects and displayed behavioral characteristics which were "well organized." Might it be possible to make humans behave like other animals? Not likely, said Balaban, since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Strange Birds | 3/5/1997 | See Source »

...never work. In Massachusetts, you get a week of vacation every two months. Plus you get all holidays off, and three months in the summer. That's plenty of time to write your novel, sing in your band and read the books you'd never have the time to read working for McKinsey and Company...

Author: By Michael K. Mayo, | Title: Gateway to the Good | 3/4/1997 | See Source »

...SenGupta, mother of Devi SenGupta '98, came from Seattle to watch her daughter sing Ghazal and Nazrul Geeti--Urdu and Bengali songs of unfulfilled love...

Author: By Maia K. Davis, | Title: 'Ghungroo' Performances Sell Out | 3/3/1997 | See Source »

...college-newspaper column called "What's Left" and has always been passionate about bottom-up grass-roots movements. Money, as far as Glaser is concerned, can be damned. "I'm not interested in the purely economic end of this anymore than Pavarotti is interested in getting paid to sing," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NETLEY NEWS: THEY'VE GOTTA HAVE IT | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

Hoffmann's second failure at love is with the delicate, aria-singing, harpsichord-playing Antonia (Sarita Cannon), the damsel with a voice as clear and melodic as that of her dead mother, whose enormous portrait looms in the family's salon. The only problem is that Antonia's gift is killing her: if she continues to sing, the strain will destroy her. Benaim fills the role of the malevolent physician Dr. Miracle who also arranged the demise of Antonia's mother, urging the daughter to sing and sing until she is prostrate, dying on the davenport, still belting out Hoffmann...

Author: By Elisabetta A. Coletti, | Title: Dunster House Opera Spins Rousing 'Tales' | 2/20/1997 | See Source »

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