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...Mississippi's snow-covered northern reaches to the Delta's squalor. But Sleeping by the Mississippi is less about the river than the spirit of wandering. This is classic American road-trip photography that captures the tender frailties of ordinary people like Charles, a model-plane buff in Vasa, Minnesota. Selections from the exhibition will move to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts in March, joining some of Soth's other recent work. Wherever you can see them, his photos aren't to be missed...
Shaham's fun-loving energy carried over into the next piece on the program, an arrangement by the violinist Vasa Prihoda of the waltzes from Richard Strauss's opera Der Rosenkavalier. The waltzes of Richard Strauss (better known as the "Waltz King" and composer of the famous Blue Danube Waltz) are always lush, sweeping and charmingly Romantic--an appropriately opulent depiction of turn-of-the-century Vienna. The problem in this piece was depicting the full orchestral grandeur of such a work with only an accompanied violin--a problem Gil Shaham easily overcame. His delivery of the waltzes was delightfully...
Normally sperm are conveyed toward the outside of the body through ducts, the vasa deferentia. In a vasectomy, the ducts are cut, but sperm continue to be manufactured. With the exit passage blocked, the sperm break down and leak into surrounding tissue and possibly into the bloodstream, where they are recognized as "foreign" and attacked by antibodies. Alexander and Clarkson postulate that the resultant sperm-antibody complexes injure the artery walls and accelerate formation of atherosclerotic plaques...
...Alsop published books under the pen name Mary O'Hara, including several that evoked the sweep and grandeur of America's Rocky Mountain states (Thunderhead, Green Grass of Wyoming), a region she came to love while living on a Wyoming ranch with her second husband, Helge Sture-Vasa...
...government of Sweden has bestowed the Royal Order of Vasa (First Class) on Martin Norr, a research associate at the Law School, for his "fine work in making Swedish laws known to the English-speaking world." Norr, co-author of Taxation in Sweden (1959) and The Corporate Income Tax in Sweden (1963) is currently preparing studies of taxation in Israel and France...