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...makers that only the strongest wood can produce a lush, full sound. According to Nagyvary, the opposite is true. He also says it casts doubt on the working hypothesis of many scientists that Stradivari worked during Europe's "little ice age" of the 15th-17th centuries, in which low summer temperatures led to slow but uniform growth in the Spruce trees used for instruments, and that the wood's uniform density explains the instruments' high quality of sound. Last year, researchers in The Netherlands and the U.S. used medical imaging technology to confirm that the wood came from slow-growing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Accidental Genius: Why a Stradivarius Sounds So Good | 2/15/2009 | See Source »

...recent renovations of the cafeteria and basement computer labs were completed last summer...

Author: By June Q. Wu and Helen X. Yang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Cramped Spaces Burden HSPH | 2/13/2009 | See Source »

Then came Jason. In 1980, Paramount Pictures released Friday the 13th (tagline: "Fridays will never be the same again"), a slasher flick about a series of murders at a summer camp. Apparently Jason, born on Friday the 13th, chooses that date to take revenge on oversexed campers much like the ones who allowed him to drown in Crystal Lake. So much for trust falls and lanyard-making. Friday the 13th grossed almost $40 million at the box office and inspired a long-running franchise: Friday the 13th Part II; Friday the 13th Part III; Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Friday the 13th | 2/13/2009 | See Source »

...dainty, sweet style that emerged from mid-80s England, then-described by music critic Simon Reynolds as “a revolt into childhood”—would be an understatement. While the Twee sound longs for a greater, happier future, it is ever-wistful for lazy summers and bubblegum popsicles. POBPAH similarly builds upon the output of Shoegaze bands of the same period, marked by a distorted, almost atmospheric guitar sound.Pegging the album as a simple distillation of its influences would be reductive, and it would likewise be inaccurate to say that what they?...

Author: By Ruben L. Davis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...politics as being to join a unity government with Hamas - and begin to directly challenge the Israeli occupation in the West Bank. The fact that such a sentiment coincides with Israel's electing a more hawkish government suggests that the Middle East could be in for a long, hot summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After Israel's Election, Palestinians Weigh New Intifadeh | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

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