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...Floating World didn’t take Slichter far upstream, though, and he says he spent most of his years in Cambridge watching a “pretty lame” music scene at the College go by with occasional highlights. An extra year studying jazz composing and arranging at the Berklee College of Music, he says, turned out to be “more like a boot camp for musicians...
...time row was held for the Crimson Freshmen, and the time, remarkably fast, especially under rather unfavorable conditions, was not given out. The trial was rowed over the upper two miles of the tour-mile course. The wind was blowing upstream and the tide was running...
Conditions on the river had been so unruly that Radcliffe head coach Liz O’Leary and Brown head coach John Murphy decided to run the races upstream, in the Pawtucket Channel, where the river narrows and is better protected...
...Brisbane, Noosa is the antidote to the strip malls, theme parks and gaudy casino- hotels that sprawl, in depressing profusion, along Australia?s northeast coast?just ask rockers Bob Geldof and Mick Jagger, British mogul Sir Richard Branson (who recently bought an island, no less, in the Noosa River upstream from the resort), Austrian tennis ace Thomas Muster or Driving Miss Daisy and Last Dance director Bruce Beresford. Noosa offers a boho lifestyle and an alluring menu of attractions, natural and man-made alike. The geography of the region has conspired to create the perfect place for forgetting that...
...rodents, such as the prairie vole, form long pair bonds with their mates, as human beings do. Others, such as the montane vole, have only transitory liaisons, as do chimpanzees. The difference, according to Tom Insel and Larry Young at Emory University in Atlanta, lies in the promoter upstream of the oxytocin-and vasopressin-receptor genes. The insertion of an extra chunk of DNA text, usually about 460 letters long, into the promoter makes the animal more likely to bond with its mate. The extra text does not create love, but perhaps it creates the possibility of falling in love...