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January 23--Tuft's second team at Somerville...
...Alzheimer's disease. Unfortunately, most of these preventive measures need to be started well before any neurological problems develop. "What we've learned with dementia is that it's very hard to improve people who already have it," says Dr. Ernst Schaefer, a professor of medicine and nutrition at Tuft's Friedman School of Nutrition in Boston. "But it may be possible to stabilize people and to prevent disease...
...opposite extreme from this image is Signac's wonderful and bizarre Portrait of Felix Feneon, Opus 217, 1890-91--the fox-jawed face with its little tuft of beard in profile, the hand holding a cyclamen, against a madly spiraling background of fruit-jelly abstract forms. The dandified, loony energy of Feneon's argot-filled writing seems impacted into that background, even though its source is a Japanese kimono pattern. My, you think, those guys must have had some laughs together. Which they...
...shoulders and torso have plumelike "sprays" of extremely thin fibers up to 2 in. long. The backs of its arms and legs, meanwhile, are draped in multiple filaments arranged in a classic herringbone pattern around a central stem. Even the tail is covered with feathers, with a fan, or tuft, at the end. "It doesn't look anything like what most people think dinosaurs look like," explains the American Museum's Mark Norell, one of the team's co-leaders. "When this thing was alive, it looked like a Persian cat with feathers...
...every reading took on such hefty subject matter, as Tuft's Jacquelyn Benson lightened things up with a dramatic reading of Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time." Josette Akresh of Boston University staked her claim for the poetic medium with comedic bluntness, "If you don't appreciate poetry you're an ignorant fool...You need a taste of Socrates and a good hard punch in the kisser." Some of the more memorable idiomatic expressions of the night included the fascinating simile, "waves like asses rise and fall," as well as another student's symbolic appropriation of Richard Dean Anderson...