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Carol J. Thompson, Harvard's associate dean for academic affairs, said she was sur- prised to hear of MIT's findings, but also saidshe was encouraged that the Institute had publiclyacknowledged them...
...celebration, the first of its kind, featured History of Science Teaching Assistant Abha Sur speaking on International Women's Day, its history and its meaning...
...market, there are no bargains: he would have to pay top dollar for top works. The big test of this came with buying the first of two Van Goghs, Peasant Woman Against a Background of Wheat, painted a few weeks before the artist's suicide at Auvers-sur-Oise in 1890. This exceptional portrait had been hanging on loan in the Metropolitan Museum, and it cost Wynn a nonnegotiable $47.5 million of his own money, not the Bellagio's. (So far, Wynn's Mirage Resorts Inc. has picked up $160 million of the tab for the collection, and Wynn himself...
...Parisian Culture Police turn up their noses and shut their exhibit spaces to innovative new painters. In response, the artists establish the Salon de Refuses and exhibit such landmark paintings as Edouard Manet's Le dejeuner sur l'herbe...
...toxic microbes that can kill fish and cause human health problems, such as liver and kidney ills and amnesia. Billions of fish died along the Middle and Southern Atlantic coast in recent years because of suspected pollution from upstream sources. On a tour of the land area around Big Sur, my guide from the California Coastal Commission, Lee Otter (yes), noted as a caution and as a fact that "something always lives downstream from something else...