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...February, the head of MIT’s department of brain and cognitive science Mriganka Sur said MIT would fight to keep Pinker...
...year-old Muklis. But Philippine intelligence officials say the Afghanistan-trained bomber still heads the SOG, which has a record of terrorist attacks on civilians in urban areas. Sources tell Time that shortly after the beginning of the army offensive in February, Muklis, in hiding in Lanao del Sur province, was contacted by SOG personnel to plan retaliatory strikes. If this is true, it's an ominous prospect for the Philippines...
...Indeed, during the 1930s, Ricketts was a magnet for the bright young intellectuals flocking to the Big Sur country. Ruggedly handsome and loquacious, with an eye for the ladies, he was a kind of guru even before that word became fashionable. His lab was a late-night haunt for a wide assortment of artists, writers and scholars, among them Henry Miller, Joseph Campbell and, of course, Steinbeck, who admittedly absorbed Doc?s ideas like a sponge and turned him into the model for half a dozen characters in his books. (Ricketts "was part of my brain," the Nobel-prizewinning writer...
...pianists dare attempt French composer Olivier Messiaen’s monumental “Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant Jésus.” Even fewer have the additional distinction of graduating summa cum laude from Harvard with a degree in mathematics...
...Sur said that he had discussed the matter with Pinker, and that Pinker had expressed happiness with his position...