Local musical delegation performs for Pope Benedict
CRYSTAL LAKE James Roach still was tired Friday afternoon, but it was a good sort of tired. Roach, the director of music and liturgy for St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church in Crystal Lake, and 74 parishioners wrapped up a whirlwind, week-long trip to Italy on Monday.
Gold Canyon artist invited to Florence Biennale in Italy
When Gold Canyon artist and teacher Paul Andrus received an e-mail inviting him to participate in the Florence Biennale from Dec. 1-9 in Italy, he thought it was a hoax.
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Revealing the machinery underlying the 'plastic' juvenile brain
Among the central mysteries of neurobiology is what properties of the young brain enable it to so adeptly wire itself to adapt to experience -- a quality known as plasticity. The extraordinary plasticity of the young brain occurs only during a narrow window of time known as the critical period. For example, children deprived of normal visual stimulation during an early critical period of the ...
