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...dreams of postseason play effectively ended on Feb. 4, when it lost 70-57 to Penn and fell three games behind the Quake Show in the loss column. With no Ivy League tournament, the Crimson (12-13, 7-5 Ivy) has basically been playing out the string of games ever since, having lost virtually all hope of even...
...America's perkiest, most popular female teen idol, who caused squeals in teenage bedrooms nationwide when she married pop singer Bobby Darin; of complications from kidney disease; in Thousand Oaks, California. She played the innocent tomboy surfer in the 1959 film Gidget, a signature role that led to a string of similar parts, but showed a more serious side in films like Imitation of Life and A Summer Place. She gradually disappeared from Hollywood, battling anorexia and drinking problems after her turbulent marriage to Darin ended...
Even more interesting than the brain's adult anatomy might be the journey it takes to get there. For 13 years, psychiatrist Jay Giedd has been compiling one of the world's largest libraries of brain growth. Every Tuesday evening, from 5 o'clock until midnight, a string of children files into the National Institutes of Health outside Washington to have their brains scanned. Giedd and his team ease the kids through the MRI procedure, and then he gives them a brain tour of their pictures--gently pointing out the spinal cord and the corpus callosum, before offering them...
DIED. SANDRA DEE, 62, perky Hollywood teen idol who caused squeals in teenage bedrooms everywhere when she married pop singer Bobby Darin; of complications from kidney disease; in Thousand Oaks, Calif. She played the innocent tomboy surfer in the 1959 film Gidget, a signature role that led to a string of similar parts. But she showed a more serious side in films such as Imitation of Life and A Summer Place. She gradually disappeared from Hollywood, battling anorexia and drinking problems, after her turbulent marriage to Darin ended...
...woes of America's symphony orchestras are hardly over. The St. Louis dispute was just the latest in a string of contractual standoffs that have shaken the orchestra world lately. Four of the so-called Big Five U.S. orchestras-- Boston, Cleveland, Chicago, New York and Philadelphia--came close to lockouts last year. Others, in cities like Cincinnati, Ohio, and Buffalo, N.Y., have had to cut pay, eliminate positions or shorten the season. The sour notes stem from aging and diminishing audiences as well as insufficient endowments and rising administrative, production and health-care costs. Philadelphia Orchestra management once referred...