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When “Picnic” premiered on Broadway in 1953, it struck a nerve with postwar audiences—particularly women—hungry for a depiction of everyday lives that were not grandiose or heroic, but filled with unspoken desire.
The minutes to the Fed’s December meeting revealed some policymakers were cautious about cutting rates further in the near term.
At tree-lined White Point Garden, at the peninsula’s tip, city workers were relining paths with crushed oyster shells.
Among those questioned were the two French managers of the venue, as well as survivors of the incident.
Mice that excelled at attention tasks naturally had lower levels of these versions in their prefrontal cortex, while other forms of the gene were unchanged.
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