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I'm in a daze around Robert De Niro, says Bradley Cooper
New York City :: NY :: USA | 2 years ago
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He is easily one of the best looking men that Hollywood has offered to the world, yet superstar Bradley Cooper chooses to remain his humble self. It's a responsibility that I will gladly carry to my grave! says the actor on being touted a hunk. With
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Congresswoman Giffords, A Bullet And Neuroplasticity
The valiant struggle of Congresswoman Gabriella Giffords, victim of a "through and through" bullet that passed through her brain, is a marvel. Unless weather inteferes she will be watching her husband Cmdr. Mark Kelly pilot the shuttle
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Hooked on U.S., Japan risks going down with it
Hatoyama :: Japan | over 2 years ago
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This film told the true story of a British doctor who, in 1969, administered an experimental drug to patients in a U.S. mental hospital, miraculously awakening them after decades of living in a catatonic state. Tragically, however, the drug's effect
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Stargazing | New book plus endless curiosity keeps neurologist, philosopher and Trekkie Oliver Sacks in the news
New York City :: NY :: USA | over 2 years ago
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Anyone who has read Oliver Sacks his numerous books and/or his prolific output of engaging essays on neurology published in The New Yorker understands that he is a rare man of patience and grace. Sacks possesses a tireless intellect, a perpetual
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Rambert Dance Company, Sadler's Wells, London
London :: United Kingdom | over 2 years ago
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Awakenings' In this latest triple bill, Rambert shows off wonderful dancers and mediocre choreography. The stylish performances keep lifting the material, but there's only so much that even these dancers can do. Christopher Bruce's Hush is danced to
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Rambert, Sadler's Wells, London
New York City :: NY :: USA | over 2 years ago
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it sounds like that condition you feel coming on after Sunday lunch. But in the 1920s it was a genuine mystery illness that killed a million people worldwide, and left thousands more in a bizarre, petrified state, unable to speak or move.
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Bale de Rua, Peacock Theatre, LondonRotor, Siobhan Davies Studios, London
Uberlândia :: Brazil | over 2 years ago
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Perhaps it comes from living in a country that straddles the equator, but Brazilians don't seem to see the need to warm up an audience they just turn the heat full on. Bale de Rua is a dance show that sets out to present a short history of Brazil, or
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My Five - T. Prem Anand
Vienna :: Austria | over 2 years ago
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October 28, 2010 The English Patient Anthony Minghella Michael Ondaatje's Booker prize-winning novel The English Patient is a delight to read, the lyrical quality of its prose mesmerising. Anthony Minghella has succeeded in translating the poetry of
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How We Met: Oliver Sacks & Tobias Picker
New York City :: NY :: USA | over 2 years ago
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I commented on his beautiful red tie,' says Picker (right). 'He took it off, hung it round my neck and said, 'It's yours'' Tobias Picker, 56, is an award-winning American composer whose work has been performed by the world's leading orchestras and
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A Kind of Alaska
Anchorage :: AK :: USA | almost 3 years ago
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For the tiny minority of patients who survived, treatment was decades away. In the 1960s, experiments with newly discovered drug l-dopa woke many of these patients...But the drug's effects were short-lived, the remission cruelly temporary. The plight
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