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...expressed something rare in Hollywood - sincere gratitude. "This is such a big deal," said Irglova, the only woman in the Kodak Theater who appeared to have gotten ready without the help of a staff of 12. "Not only for us, but for all other independent musicians and artists that spend most of their time struggling. The fact that we're standing here tonight, it's just to prove no matter how far out your dreams are, it's possible...
...secret that rats - which spend much of their lives navigating narrow, often lightless passages - need more than a good sense of smell to get around. They also need a sense of touch, and it's their whiskers that do most of that work for them. What researchers never knew was precisely how elaborate that tactile system is, nor exactly how it operates. But in research that will be published in the Feb. 28 issue of Neuron, investigators at MIT have come up with an imaginative tool for finding out: high-speed video technology that works at 3,200 frames...
...good at is keeping up with people during the year,” said Kelley. School Committee member Marc C. McGovern, who spent $23,637—more than any other member to secure his seat—said the discrepancy between council and School Committee campaign spending does not reflect their relative importance. “People have this idea, ‘oh, school committee, it’s just well-meaning parents, they can hold bake sales to raise money,’ ” McGovern said. “But the School Committee has more...
...love this city. I’ve loved growing up here. I want to spend my whole life here. What energizes me is...each one of its different nooks and crannies and meeting all these people who make the city what it is,” Connolly says...
...People grabbed up more land to cultivate, planting groves of willow and poplar saplings between the fields. But now they're letting their man-made glacier fall into disrepair, says Kundan. Villagers accuse one another of secretly diverting its water, and the local watershed committee is neglecting to spend government funds on maintenance. "They're more interested in spending it on buying cows," said the 54-year-old farmer, his eyes glistening red from sun and wind...