It was good to get them under our belt. North Carolina wasn't really a close match. We owed them a read more

It was good to get them under our belt. North Carolina wasn't really a close match. We owed them a little revenge there because we lost to them earlier in the year, so it was a big win.

Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and read more

Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function, but before they have been replaced with a totally new system of values. It represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange and hybrid interregnum that might be called the last gasp of the past.

It's nice when it gets down to one team. People start talking about it, ... It's a time period when read more

It's nice when it gets down to one team. People start talking about it, ... It's a time period when we're talked about and then not again until the next year.

It is the quest for an understanding of hair cells at a molecular level that drives our research. We would read more

It is the quest for an understanding of hair cells at a molecular level that drives our research. We would like to understand how hair cells work, why they are vulnerable and why in mammals hair cells do not regenerate.

It is low-wage workers who are being hurt the most by the steady drip, drip, drip of coverage draining out read more

It is low-wage workers who are being hurt the most by the steady drip, drip, drip of coverage draining out of the employer-based health insurance system,

From the late Classical period and more so in Romantic and Modern opera, the weight settled into the orchestra, with read more

From the late Classical period and more so in Romantic and Modern opera, the weight settled into the orchestra, with the voices as a free obbligato above it, ... That just drives me crazy. I want the vocal line to be as much the core as the bass line. I want to create the illusion that the voice generates harmony, color, line, everything.

When science finally locates the center of the universe, some people will be surprised to learn they're not it.

When science finally locates the center of the universe, some people will be surprised to learn they're not it.

No. 18, that was the best hole I played all weekend. I had a good two-putter on it.

No. 18, that was the best hole I played all weekend. I had a good two-putter on it.

The whole sport is odd, but within the sport it's even an odd kind of race because of the fact read more

The whole sport is odd, but within the sport it's even an odd kind of race because of the fact that it seems so difficult. Those who do it seem to love it and embrace it. Others kind of look askance on it.