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Farber's Nerve

Farber's Nerve was programmed alongside Who I Am And What I Want by David Shrigley and Chris Shepherd in the 2006 Manhattan Short Film Festival world tour, which spanned 137 screenings across the United States, Canada, the UK, and Europe.


Andy Humm

Humm has been interviewed on the CBS Evening News, the Geraldo Show, Charlie Rose, Fox TVs Hannity & Colmes, America's Talking with Chris Matthews, The Maury Povich Show, the Alan Colmes and Barry Farber radio shows, all New York City TV newscasts, and is a frequent guest on NY-1 TVs Inside City Hall.

Arthur Pardee

In 1961 Pardee became Professor in Biochemical Sciences at Princeton University while in 1975 he moved to Boston to become Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School as well as Chief for the Division of Cell Growth and Regulation at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

ASAH

N-acylsphingosine amidohydrolase (acid ceramidase), an enzymatic product of ASAH1, gene mutated in Farber disease

Dana–Farber Cancer Institute

This, and another antifolate drug, Methotrexate used by Dr. Farber were discovered and supplied by Dr. Yellapragada Subbarao Director, Research at Lederle Co. at Pearl River, NY.

Duncan Shepherd

Many of the directors and producers Farber championed in Negative Space are favored by Shepherd as well, including Val Lewton (Curse of the Cat People, a 5-star rated film), Preston Sturges, Jean-Luc Godard (Alphaville, Contempt), Luis Buñuel (The Exterminating Angel) and Nicolas Roeg (Cold Heaven).

Dustin Brown

Many observers, including TSN's Bob McKenzie and SI's Michael Farber, called the hit the decisive moment in the series.

Here We Go Again: Celebrating the Genius of Ray Charles

Arrangements by Sherman Irby (1), Richard DeRosa (2, 10), Victor Goines (3, 4), Jackson (5), Vincent Gardner (6), Marsalis (7, 11), Christopher Crenshaw (8), Andy Farber (9, 12).

Jack Fultz

As of November 2008, Fultz is an instructor of sport psychology at Tufts University, a fitness consultant and personal coach, and a training consultant to the Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge.

Jerry Farber

Long a professor of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University, Farber now teaches in the English Department at the University of San Diego.

Jerry Saltz

Saltz has cited Manny Farber's "termite art" and Joan Didion's "Babylon" as well as other wide ranging systemic metaphors for the art world.

Los Angeles County Department of Public Works

Farber was previously the Director of Public Works for the City of Orange.

Methotrexate Leucovorin Rescue

Methotrexate was developed as a less-toxic alternative to aminopterin by Yellapragada Subbarao in 1946 and tested on 16 children by Sidney Farber and his colleague, Louis K. Diamond.

Pathatrix

Papafragkou, M. Plante, K. Mattison, S. Bidawid, K. Karthikeyan, J.M. Farber, L.A. Jaykus (2008) Rapid and Sensitive Detection of Hepatitis A Virus (HAV) in Representative Food Matrices.

Richard Farber

Farber’s first full-length ballet, 5 1/2 (German title Mann im Schatten), was set to his own libretto and choreographed by Renato Zanella; it premiered by the Stuttgart Ballet in 1992

Having been active in Habonim youth movement (1959–1963), Farber attended their summer camp and became an instructor at the Washington D.C. branch.

Run Like Hell

It was sometimes introduced by Waters as "Run Like Fuck" and Waters and Gilmour sang alternating lines in the verses, while the vocal quartet of Stan Farber, Jim Haas, Joe Chemay, and John Joyce sang the choruses.

Thorvald Stoltenberg

Stoltenberg himself kept the story a secret, until Farber in December 2006 revealed it on the Norwegian talk-show Først & sist.

Weirdsville

Stephen Farber of The Hollywood Reporter wrote "Director Allan Moyle has described Weirdsville as a Canadian Trainspotting, which is a bit of wishful thinking", saying "it lacks the inventiveness and biting edge of Danny Boyle's landmark movie" and while the film "has some quirky pleasures, it seems unlikely to achieve either major cult status or boxoffice success."

William O. Farber

Protégés including Tom Brokaw, Al Neuharth, Dennis Daugaard, and Pat O'Brien all credit much of their success upon the teachings of "Doc" Farber.

Sen. Larry Pressler, a former student and one of six Rhodes Scholars who studied under Doc, provided key support to the Farber Intern and Travel Fund activities in Washington, D.C. After the renovation of "Old Main", the lecture hall was also re-dedicated as Farber Hall.


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