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...Mona Eng, the primary author of the study, began her research with an interest in chronic disease and went on to collaborate with experts in the field of behavioral health, according to Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition Eric B. Rimm, who advised Eng’s research...
...sophisticated Dylan album, for my fifteenth birthday, along with a Janis Joplin CD. I took to Janis more at first; after all she was better for holding my hairbrush like a microphone and screaming along. But the Dylan crept up on me, with quirky lines like “Mona Lisa must’ve had the Highway Blues, you can tell by the way she smiled,” which struck me as incredibly witty—and true. When he sang “I want you, I want you, I want you soooo...
...There is no real system,” Mona S. Stoicescu ’05 said. “You have to look through all of the [packages]. People just leave their stuff here and it adds to all the clutter...
...that you might end up at the museum at a time when the "C-list" works are on display, don't fret. The collection is so vast and consistently excellent that almost every piece would be on permanent show just about anywhere else. When asked if there are some "Mona Lisa-level" pieces that are so famous or significant they warrant being on display all the time, Dainobu sniffs that the museum doesn't feel the need to promote an arbitrary handful of pieces at the expense of others. Besides, he adds, with not a little pique, "There are many...
Although large museums have had their share of embarrassing robberies--in 1911 the Mona Lisa was taken from the Louvre--the greatest problem is small institutions like the Munch Museum or private homes open to the public. Neither can afford elaborate security. Large museums attach alarms to their most valuable canvases, but a modest alarm system can cost $500,000 or more. Some museums are looking into tracking devices that would allow them to follow stolen items once they leave the premises. "But conservators are concerned that if they have to insert something, it might damage the object," says Wilbur...