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...being purged. The state of Baden-Wurttemberg has ordered its equivalent of the FBI to put a watch on church members. Bavaria is screening them out of the state civil service and says it will deny funds to events that feature performers who are Scientologists. Cruise and jazz pianist Chick Corea, also a member of the U.S. church, have been the targets of a demonstration and a boycott, apparently with official approval...
...picked your new classes. You spent night after night compiling list after list of classes to shop. You trudged through the snow, albeit only a dusting, from Sever to Emerson to William James to Science Center E and back to Sever three days straight. You're knee-deep in Chick-Fil-A, thanks to quick lunches grabbed at the Greenhouse, and you've seen more syllabi in a week than most people see in a lifetime...
...Bobby McFerrin and Chick Corea The Mozart Sessions (Sony Classical). The classical-music industry is suffering from a dearth of star performers--so along comes McFerrin, famed for his otherworldly vocalese and infectious charm. He and jazz pianist Corea turn in original, joyous performances of the familiar A major and D minor piano concertos with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra...
Science Center A-D: The Ritz. Not only are there no better halls for this purpose at Harvard now, but I can't even imagine ones that are better. With the Greenhouse Cafe and Chick-Fil-A, the Science Center is one of Cambridge's best bed-and-breakfasts...
Since then, scientists have refocused their attention on nerve-growth factors, first identified in 1951 by Rita Levi-Montalcini of Washington University in St. Louis, who studied neural development in chick embryos. The ngf protein is present in the peripheral nervous system, but cells in the central system do not normally respond to it. Researchers are investigating ways to use ngf and proteins like it to encourage new axonal growth from the spinal cord. ngf injected into the spinal cords of rats revived connections from the spinal cord to the brain, but it remains uncertain whether more or less...