With an intellectually disabled, purple-fuzzy-jacket-clad, red-lipstick-wearing protagonist, “Wedding Doll” presents a truly unique narrative. At first it seems that “Wedding Doll” will be a typical romance story, but as the story progresses it becomes something darker and more real. Actress Moran Rosenblatt portrays the protagonist, Hajit, and her mental disability in a believable and authentic…

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Masahiko Aoki, Stanford Henri and Tomoye Takahashi Professor of Japanese Studies and professor emeritus of economics, passed away in Palo Alto on July 15, 2015, due to lung disease. Aoki was 77 years old and was also a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.

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Stanford researchers in Senegal have found a natural alternative way to combat freshwater parasite schistosomiasis. Their recent published study suggests that by maintaining a steady population of prawns in the major river access points, the population of the parasite that reaches humans is safely reduced, without the need for access to high-cost treatments.

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