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Opera singer teaches Sox fans how to scream

You Scream, I Scream Dept.
If Elena Zoubareva had the nerve to admonish boisterous fans outside Fenway Park, she’d offer, calmly, “Don’t scream like that — you’ll strain your vocal cords!”
By: MARIANNA FAYNSHTEYN  |  May 05, 2010

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Solving hunger is not a piece of cake

Will Walk for Food Dept.
Marie Antoinette lost a head not too long after she allegedly offered, “Let them eat cake” as a suggestion to hungry Parisians with no bread. While there are still plenty of people making ignorant remarks these days, very few of them are French princesses. Progress!
By: MARIANNA FAYNSHTEYN  |  April 28, 2010

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Children of the Revolution

Child's Play
Eleven down — three dead on the spot, and two more whisked away to suffer the same fate a bit later.
By: MARIANNA FAYNSHTEYN  |  April 23, 2010

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OMG, blame him

Holy Finger-Pointing
With religion being responsible for so many of the conflicts currently plaguing the world, it's good to see that some people are finally pointing the blame finger skyward.
By: MARIANNA FAYNSHTEYN  |  March 03, 2010

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Hot spots in an instant

Real-Time Clubbing
Cologne on, dress pants clean, and IDs ready — your Friday night is in full swing. But before you take a step behind the bouncer-guarded pearly gates, check your cell phone. It may just save you the cover charge.
By: MARIANNA FAYNSHTEYN  |  February 24, 2010

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The Bicycle Feat

Jungle Fever
In the corner of the lab of Shire Human Genetic Therapies in Cambridge, you'll find a guy with DEVELOPMENT SPECIALIST written across his lab coat, unassumingly purifying proteins.
By: MARIANNA FAYNSHTEYN  |  February 17, 2010



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Orwell and Shakespeare in a Minute

Second-Hand Books Dept.
"I thought we were going to be talking about windmills," Jenny Sawyer mutters as she looks into the camera, sandwiched between two pigs.
By: MARIANNA FAYNSHTEYN  |  January 27, 2010

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Review: The Maid

Sebastián Silva’s textured routines
Sebastián Silva’s film follows the routine of Raquel (Catalina Saavedra), a maid for a wealthy Chilean family who’s passed her 20th year of service.
By: MARIANNA FAYNSHTEYN  |  November 11, 2009
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