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...decade ago, the idea that the planet was warming up as a result of human activity was largely theoretical. We knew that since the Industrial Revolution began in the 18th century, factories, power plants, automobiles and farms have been loading the atmosphere with heat-trapping gases, including carbon dioxide and methane. But evidence that the climate was actually getting hotter was still murky...
Galeano is one of Uruguay’s most prominent authors and many of his books have been translated into English. His title comes from an 18th century criers’ pitch for magic lanterns that implores, “Step into the school of the upside-down world!” And Upside Down does read a bit like a school textbook. It is a litany of declarative sentences such as, “Fear is the raw material that sustains the flourishing industries of private security and social control, and it’s in steady supply...
...other things will be very different from Miami, starting with the less than sunny atmosphere. The latest summit meeting place, a French-speaking city whose picturesque 18th-century old town was denominated as a world heritage landmark by the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization, will be fenced off and guarded by phalanxes of police in riot gear. Tens of thousands of protesters are expected to descend upon Quebec City to vent their spleen at capitalism, globalization and the evils of free trade and to demonstrate their conviction that the FTAA will make things worse instead of better...
Renovation of Berlin's Brandenburg Gate began in November, but the ugly scaffolding that usually surrounds such a building site is nowhere to be seen. Instead, the city's 18th century landmark has been swathed in a series of gigantic posters promoting Deutsche Telekom. The wrapping of construction scaffolding in mammoth ad posters is just one example of "ambient media," a fast-growing marketing genre that's finding new places to advertise in the Old World...
...63rd year of its existence, the Lowell House Opera (LHO) presents a very ambitious staging of Puccini’s classic La Bohème. Working under the aegis of the 18th century German philosopher, poet and philologist Friedrich Nietzsche, LHO’s production hopes to prove Marx wrong in his belief that “everything enters history only twice: first as tragedy, then as farce.” La Bohème explores Nietzsche’s proposed third entrance into history: irony...