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About the Movies: Great chillers for Halloween-spirited grownups |
| Our film expert Prof. Frank Beaver polled friends on the movie that scared them the most. His pick: Don't Look Now, Nicolas Roeg's Venice-set, visually stunning study in scarlet (1973).
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• | Drug refined from cottonseed oil shows promise against prostate cancer |
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A drug refined from cottonseed oil, previously abandoned
as a male contraceptive, could be effective against prostate cancer and
other common cancers, too, according to new research from the U-M Comprehensive
Cancer Center.
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U-M
spinoff that
makes lasers for eye surgery goes public |
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U-M's 20-year sponsorship of ultra-fast laser research
culminated this month in the public offering of IntraLase IPO stock based
on the performance of a tool used in eye surgery. As of June
30, the company had placed 153 laser units globally.
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• | Joan Morris sings 'The Divine Image' from the 'Songs of Innocence and of Experience'
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Prof. William Bolcom's 1985 masterpiece for 450 performers, a setting
of the poetry of William Blake, has been released on a three-CD set
on Naxos American Classics. Mezzo-soprano
Morris is Bolcom's wife.
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• | Two poems read by Macklin Smith
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Listen to Koans? No, Queries(mp3)
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| English Prof. Macklin Smith's Transplant is a poetic journal of his experiences during a diagnosis of leukemia and bone marrow transplant therapy. Hardly the expected 'downer,' the resulting verses read like chapters of a wryly told adventure.
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• | Frieze Building to become site for new residence hall |
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The Frieze Building on the corner of Huron and State will
make way for a 500-occupant residence hall that will also house academic
activities and resident faculty. The Carnegie Library wing (pictured)
will be preserved.
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Professor
to test flu shot and nasal spray flu vaccine side by side |
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'We really don’t know whether one is superior
to the other in adults,' said Arnold Monto, professor of epidemiology
at the U-M School of Public Health and a life-long researcher on cold and
flu. 'We want to be able to say whether there is an advantage in protection.' |
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