Word: voided
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Since the federal government has shirked support for what could be the most significant field of biological research for years to come, we are glad to see Harvard and other private institutions stepping in to help fill the funding void left by the Bush administration. Indeed, a recent press release confirmed that the University, which has already started to make stem-cell lines available to researchers across the country, is planning to open a stem-cell research hub at the new campus in Allston. University President Lawrence H. Summers is positioning Harvard at the forefront of the most exciting development...
...reconciliation on stage? That was the subject of the symposium, which brought together indigenous leaders such as academic Marcia Langton, Senator Aden Ridgeway and filmmaker Rachel Perkins. Perhaps the pithiest comments came from curator Djon Mundine, who spoke of Aboriginal arts as a soliloquy cast into a silent void. "We keep giving it to you people," he told a largely white audience. "We want something to come back...
Touching the Void...
TOUCHING THE VOID...
This story of a 1985 Andes mountain-climbing disaster comes courtesy of director Kevin MacDonald, whose film One Day in September won the Oscar for Best Documentary a few years ago. But in the vein of his last work, Touching the Void is not a clear-cut documentary; the events it examines are real, but MacDonald uses re-enactments of the story’s events to supplement a narrated account from the disaster’s survivors. The nut of their crisis: halfway through a climb, one of the two team members falls and breaks several leg bones...