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...urologist, respectively—are most confused. Despite their loving guidance, the last science class to appear on my transcript was Science B-57, “Dinosaurs and Their Relatives.” When they asked me what I learned sitting there in Science Center C, what sprung to mind was not skeletal systems or plate tectonics, but how my roommate created an aggressively lewd anagram to remember therapods. But once upon a time, science was my passion. In grade school, I was fascinated by lab experiments, class field trips to the Museum of Natural History, and, most...
...organized the two-year Preserve the Brattle Legacy Campaign, which ends this December, to help build a solid financial foundation. According to Hinkle, the Brattle has been “struggling financially for 15 to 20 years.” Recently, though, the theater’s finances have sprung even greater leaks. Hinkle and his staff completed extensive renovations to the theater in 2001, casting it into a debt that was itself exacerbated as fewer people went movie-going that fall. “There was a huge drop in audiences after September 11” from which...
Miller was no sooner sprung and sworn than a war erupted over why it took Miller and her lawyers so long to get a waiver from Libby in the first place. One of the principles over which Miller said she went to jail was her belief that the so-called blanket waivers of confidentiality signed by Libby and several other White House officials were coerced from them, leaving her no choice other than to continue protecting them. But Libby's lawyer Joseph Tate suggested that Libby had offered Miller a freely given waiver as much as a year...
...place of evolution in school curricula has been called "Scopes II," after the infamous "Monkey Trial" of 1925 - and 80 years after a Tennessee teacher was indicted for teaching Darwin's Theory of Evolution, the issue is hotter than ever. New challenges to the teaching of evolution have sprung up all over the country, but the focus this week is on the U.S. District Court in Harrisburg, PA, where 11 parents from the town of Dover have sued the local school board over its mandate that students hear a statement insisting that evolution is a theory rather than a fact...
...glassy cathedral to contemporary art. Here the fiberglass manta ray and skater-boy video of former "Primavera" artists James Angus and Shaun Gladwell sit happily alongside such contemporary jewels as Jean Tinguely's kinetic sculpture and bark painter John Mawurndjul's rainbow serpent. Here, and across Australasia, spring has sprung...