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...envisioned evil scientists administering drugs and laughing,” says Renata T. DeSousa ’08 when she recalls her first impression of the Spelke/Carey scene. Actually, the studies are happily non-invasive. Scientists at William James Hall concentrate on behavioral studies, not the imagined medicinal studies of effectual amounts of lead poisoning in children. Graduate students instead test the hypothesis that toddlers lose interest in visual stimuli once they understand what they...
...high-fat diet were back to normal weight in just a month, no matter what they ate. "If even a fraction of what we found in mice relates to human biology, then we are cautiously optimistic that there may be a new way to think about reversing obesity," says Renata Pasqualini of the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Promising research to be sure, but don't cancel your gym membership yet. --By David Bjerklie
...wasn't just the museum, either. Vandals also invaded three libraries, setting fire to thousands upon thousands of records, manuscripts and rare books--including irreplaceable copies of the Koran. Says Renata Holod, a professor of art history at the University of Pennsylvania: "The burning of the National Library and the National Archives is comparable to a collection of the size and importance of the Library of Congress being gutted and destroyed. It's such a tragedy, I could cry." Nor was the devastation limited to Baghdad. The University of Mosul's important rare book and manuscript collection also was sacked...
...Renata Plachetkova was rushed into the delivery room for the birth of her second child, a nurse thrust a paper in her face, saying, "You must sign. We will tie off your tubes. You won't have more children." Given no time to consider alternatives, and little explanation of the procedure, Plachetkova consented. "I had no choice," she says. "I had to sign." A 27-year-old mother of two from Svedlar in eastern Slovakia, Plachetkova is one of some 110 Roma women who allege that they were forcibly sterilized in Slovakia's public hospitals since the 1989 fall...
...acquisition of the Madina Collection, which will make LACMA's the third largest Islamic art collection in the U.S. But it's not just galleries. College professors are reporting an increased enrollment in Islamic art courses. "I had people sitting on the floor, we were so full," says Renata Holod, professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, of her course at the University of Pennsylvania. Numbers are still small--Holod's class now attracts about 30 students--but it's a pattern that's being echoed on campuses elsewhere. "The art gives a more accurate view of that culture," says Linda...