Word: superstars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...best survey researchers in the country.... He is one of the most widely cited researchers," said William Julius Wilson, Wiener professor public policy at the Kennedy School of Government. "He's going to be another superstar...
...November 6, two months after rap superstar Tupac Shakur died in a storm of bullets while driving with his record-company owner, Marion ("Suge") Knight, Sergeant Kevin Manning of the Las Vegas police turned on his television to find Knight chatting with a correspondent for ABC. "If you knew who killed Tupac," asked the reporter, "would you tell the police?" "Absolutely not," answered Knight...
...only other campus drama experience came just last spring when I joined my house drama society, joining in an excruciatingly painful and drawn-out effort to stage "Jesus Christ Superstar" in the Winthrop courtyard, complete with plans to chain the Jesus to the Winthrop gates as a post-modern cross. Unfortunately, the show never materialized. I figured I had had a rather representative Harvard drama experience, and I retired quickly from my production aspirations...
...even promising bands don't have a chance to develop followings. "A major label will sign an alternative-rock band and put in six months of invested time," says Wendy Powell, assistant to the senior vice president of retail sales at Tower Records. "Then, if they are not making superstar sales, they stop pushing them, and they become a write...
According to an article published last week in Science, researchers have discovered two variations in a gene that affects the way brain cells respond to serotonin (serotonin, of course, is the superstar neurotransmitter targeted by Prozac and other antidepressants). The gene comes in a short and a long version, and the study found that the short promotes fewer of the molecules that facilitate serotonin reabsorption. The long promotes the creation of more such molecules. After giving personality tests to 505 individuals (who responded to such statements as "Frightening thoughts sometimes come into my head") and taking their blood for genetic...