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...shown at all, and that gap between demand and supply is often filled by piracy. Industry insiders estimate that as much as 33% of Indian film companies' revenues are lost to piracy each year, with many of the counterfeits going to foreign markets. Now, two major Bollywood studios aim to change that by making films directly available, via download, to the vast overseas market that contributes a fifth of the industry's revenues...
David Rodowick, the acting chair of the VES Department who helped write the proposal for the program four years ago, said before the meeting yesterday that the department would aim to begin accepting applications for the program in the fall...
...Harvard Kennedy School policy research group received a $1.46 million grant last week from a charitable foundation devoted to, among other issues, environmental conservation. The grant will fund a three-year program by the Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group, aimed at finding methods to reduced greenhouse gases. The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation chose to give Harvard funds from its $100 million Climate Change Initiative because of the University’s prolonged focus on the issue, according to Kelly S. Gallagher, director of the Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group. “The fact that Harvard...
Hizballah has blamed Israel, and the organization's expected retaliation will likely aim in that direction. But could the $5 million price tag for Mughniyah's head have proved too tempting for a member of the Syrian regime? Or was it a favor by Damascus to the U.S. in exchange for an easing of international pressure...
...from tooling down Park Lane in their Lamborghinis, and Johnson is right that affluent households may just add a brace of low-emissions cars to their private transport options. A small increase in traffic as people take advantage of the exemption is unlikely to worry the Mayor, whose main aim is to wean people off private cars and onto buses, tubes and bikes. He says the scheme will be monitored and the exemption repealed if "hordes of people with a malignant turn of mind rush out to buy [low-emissions] cars just to annoy me." If he gets his third...