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...credit, he tries something sparse, minimalist and deliberately discomfiting. In a scene borrowed from a Charles Dickens story (The Signalman), the Act I curtain rises on a bitingly cold railway cutting, telegraph wires whipping ominously in the wind. It's an unsettling, otherworldly sound, and thereafter the score strains to upset expectations; major keys turn to minor with a shudder, songs end in a subdued moan. The arrangement is at its best for Laura's wedding scene, where a frighteningly pallid girl sings The Holly and the Ivy around one sinister note, and a scream is heard in the church...
...aggressive rehabilitation readied his knee for the start of fall practice, the question shifted from whether Harvey would have the requisite knowledge to play safety, but whether his body would hold up under the renewed strain of full-speed drills...
...current vaccine is not effective against the B strain, which is responsible for 20-30 percent of meningitis cases,” DeMaria said...
...avian flu's deadly H5N1 strain claimed its 20th victim in Vietnam? The Vietnamese government doesn't appear particularly eager to know. Officially, the government says it is waiting for the last in a series of tests to confirm that a 14-month-old boy died Sept. 5 of H5N1 bird flu. Yet one Vietnamese health official told TIME the real cause for the delay is the desire to avoid a fresh bird-flu controversy before an Asian-European summit in Hanoi next month. "For the time being, we are just identifying it as flu type...
...worked our butts off for the past three years, and we?re proud and happy to be on the podium in that top spot,? said Walsh. Although they were dominant in the 2003 season, May stepped off the beach for a month this summer due to an abdominal strain, and it wasn?t clear whether she would be in top form in Athens. ?A lot of people doubted that I would be back in time, and it felt great to shove it in their face that I was back,? said May the day before the gold medal match. May dedicated...