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...sophomore talents made a splash this weekend at the Hatch Brown regatta, held at MIT this weekend, as they won the A-division by a vast margin. Skipper Kyle Kovacs and crew Elyse Dolbec finished with 27 points over 10 races, while their closest competitors, Roger Williams College...
...likely that the vast majority of these genetic differences do not influence human biology, and we expect that in the next few years we will be able to find perhaps a few hundred thousand potentially interesting changes,” the study’s lead author, Tarjei S. Mikkelsen of the Broad Institute, wrote in an e-mail...
...likely to buy whole collections-even an entire museum-as a single work of art. One of the 5,000 pieces he brought back, a bronze Japanese buddha, was so enormous that he built an elegant Paris residence around it. For years, Cernuschi allowed visitors to see his vast collection by special request. Before his death in 1896, he bequeathed the building and its contents to his adopted city, which made it a public museum...
...that at death the two go their separate ways. While the spirit journeys to paradise, the po remains in the tomb. There, it needs the same kinds of company and comforts that it enjoyed in life, which the mingqi were designed to provide. The Cernuschi displays a vast array of these once-buried companions-dancers, musicians, cooks, soldiers and guardians, as well as ducks, birds and horses. These animated figures, along with the museum's glazed models of forts and bas-relief fragments from tomb walls, provide an extraordinary glimpse of Chinese life some 2,000 years ago: how people...
...grim, 1960s factory pictures by Bernd and Hilla Becher (the oldest work on show) or the disturbing aridity of Hans Christian Schink's images of an empty autobahn (among the newest photographs displayed). Even when the subject matter isn't German?as in Andreas Gursky's vast photographs of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange?there is often an underlying fascination with the workings of capitalism...