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  • Getty Images Pregnancy: 'A stress test for the heart'?

    Problems In Pregnancy Signal Future Health Risks Ron Winslow 2011

  • Everett Collection Tom Hanks may have snapped, 'There's no crying in baseball!' in 'A League of Their Own,' but there were rivers in 'The Natural' and 'Field of Dreams.'

    So There Is Crying in Basketball... Jason Gay 2011

  • Pascal Victor/ArtComArt 'A Magic Flute' The choice of what element to focus on may be a matter of taste.

    How Much Innovation Is Too Much? Pia Catton 2011

  • "The Beatles' 'Revolution 9' is the piece where you most clearly hear them, with sounds taken from all sorts of sources, but they're also on 'Tomorrow Never Knows' and 'A Day in the Life'— songs that have that use of sound as a paintbrush."

    The Sound of Late-'60s Discord Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim 2011

  • Joan Marcus New productions such as the Public Theater's 'Timon of Athens,' above, and 'A Magic Flute,' which will come to the Lincoln Center Festival, offer relatively austere stagings.

    How Much Innovation Is Too Much? Pia Catton 2011

  • Pascal Victor/ ArtComArt Jeanne Zaepffel in 'A Magic Flute' at the Barbican LONDON—Is it possible to get to the essence of Mozart and his librettist Emanuel Schikaneder's opera "Die Zauberflöte"?

    A Magical 'Flute' Without the Fanfare Paul Levy 2011

  • Berenberg Bank Berenberg Bank's Markus Taubert: 'A huge market opportunity' Mr. Taubert: A smart grid is a form of an energy-efficient electricity network integrating various decentralized forms of power generation through the adoption of digital technology.

    Berenberg's Taubert Likes Smart Grids Tara Loader Wilkinson 2011

  • There is a Chinese proverb—I forget it exactly, but it's something like 'A movement describes a thousand feelings.'

    Dancing to a New Tune Sarah Frater 2011

  • "We love the idea of those kilims mentioned in a novel like Lermontov's 'A Hero of Our Time,' where a nobleman would be traveling through the Caucasus in a great carriage, and he'd unroll his rugs to eat on for lunch."

    Designing Russia Alexandra Marshall 2011

  • JL: My friend and co-creator of Teach Now Michele Lisenbury Christensen came up with this great definition: 'A teacher is anybody who shares ideas, energy, information with others for the sake of serving.'

    Tara Sophia Mohr: Teach Now: An Interview with Jennifer Louden Tara Sophia Mohr 2011

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