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Herchel Smith, developer of the first synthetic oral contraceptive who died last December, has bequeathed a sum to the University that will create a new professorship in molecular genetics...
Lagemann’s simplistic description of the difference between her current and future jobs sum up perhaps the biggest challenge that lies ahead...
...sound that the Group cultivates is so electronic that it removes any spirit from the music. Heavy drapes covered Mays’ grand piano to dampen any resonance, and Vu’s trumpet was so heavily processed that he might as well been playing an electronic keyboard. The sum total was largely lifeless music that was soothing, placating and soporific...
...book she's writing for Scribner. The woman, an investment banker who 13 years ago was attacked and left for dead by a gang of teens as she jogged through the Manhattan park, has never revealed her identity. She is being paid a mid-six-figure sum for world rights to "I Am the Central Park Jogger." The author's name will be released with the book...
...time when virtually no galleries were seriously exhibiting photography as art. Photography was an overlooked medium in its commercial relationship to the art world, so much so that the young Bochner purchased a Walker Evans photograph from a 1965 exhibition for the now preposterously meager sum of $100. In this art scene which did not yet value photography, Bochner produced a series of innovative photographs that proved the medium’s potential. His seminal works would later help to elevate the status of photography as well as advance the aims of conceptual...