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...will present his findings on Oct. 30 as part of a symposium in New York City on music and the brain. The son of a world-renowned cellist, Janigro specializes in studying epilepsy and is associated with Cleveland Clinic's Arts and Medicine Institute, which is working to advance our understanding of how music can do such things as help decrease pain and blood pressure and improve movement in Parkinson's patients...
Runner-up: "Wufus! I'm coming with you! He's our son! We're doing this together...
...most of her roles since, she's been the strong, idealized sister or daughter: Daniel Radcliffe's "best beloved sister" in the TV drama My Son Jack; one of a pair of innocent cousins at the heart of an endless lawsuit in the BBC'S 2006 Bleak House; the rebellious daughter of a working-class Prime Minister in another BBC series, The Amazing Mrs Pritchard; and the landowner's daughter who's desperate to be an actress in the Royal Court production of The Seagull that went to Broadway last year and earned her a Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding...
...warm gaze with laser intensity, and the gift of thought transference: the viewer always knows what's going on inside her characters. She doesn't turn on the starkest emotions but finds them within her. When she gets the news of her brother's disappearance in My Son Jack, her devastation is both extravagant and acute; too much seems exactly the right amount. Her Nina in The Seagull wore emotions so raw that Mulligan was in a sluice of tears for nearly the entire evening...
Compare this to Greg Mortenson, nominated for the prize by some members of Congress, whom the bookies gave 20-to-1 odds of winning. Son of a missionary, a former Army medic and mountaineer, he has made it his mission to build schools for girls in places where opium dealers and tribal warlords kill people for trying. His Central Asia Institute has built more than 130 schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan - a mission which has, along the way, inspired millions of people to view the protection and education of girls as a key to peace and prosperity and progress...