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What causes the duality of desire? Most experts believe sexual orientation develops from a mix of nature and nurture, but the recipe remains a mystery. Gender may be fixed prenatally by a chromosome and a wash of hormones, but does a flood of chemicals prime the fetus for a particular sexual preference...
...Bertrand '92-94' sits in the Wash and Dry laundromat on Mt. Auburn Street near Harvard Square. He's waiting for his clothes...
...danger of infection makes it obvious that doctors and nurses should wash their hands often. Obvious, maybe, but not routine. In a study at the University of Iowa Hospital, doctors found that their colleagues lathered up less than half the time. And this was when they knew they were being watched. The rate is undoubtedly even lower most of the time...
...mainstream of Guercino's graphic work was his studies for commissions. He worked in many media -- chalk, charcoal, crayon, pencil -- but his favorite was pen and ink wash, from which he produced brilliant summaries of movement, light and shade. The trace of the pen twists and flourishes, now with a liquid agitation, now in sheaves of parallel hatching as tense as wires. Nodes of darkness in a head or down the flank of a torso link up across the whiteness of the paper, and the fearlessness of tonal range attests to Guercino's mastery. He could work passages of light...
...example is the mopheads of the practicing choristers in Four Youths Singing, Watched by an Old Man, in which glints of white paper show through the dense tangle of pen and wash, providing the highlights within the hair. In such drawings, the balance between specific details like this and the more generalized effects -- the well-judged breadth of tonal washes that firm up the singing group, or the intricate set of quick dabs to give the bony structure of the old music teacher's face -- can still surprise you. Four hundred years after his birth, the Squinter remains as fresh...