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Ansel Adams was the poet of the gray spectrum, the man who dipped the American sublime into the inkpot of black-and-white photography and by that means made it new again. So persuasive were his methods that because of him we tend to think of the national parks the way we think of the Great Depression, as something we can barely conceive of in color. He almost made us believe that the whole of creation comes in the palette of a cinder block - and to be glad about it. (See 10 things you didn't know about national parks...
...American Repertory Theater is by no means a newcomer to Cambridge. According to Thomas S. Lee, Program Manager of Learning From Performers in the Office for the Arts, the A.R.T. was established in 1980 by Robert Brustein and gradually began to develop a relationship with Harvard undergraduates...
...reactors would cut emissions by 80 percent by 2050. Even Energy Secretary Steven Chu has also expressed support, even if somewhat lukewarm, for the nuclear approach, endorsing in September additional loan-guarantee authority for nuclear power and saying that, “If you really want to restart the American nuclear energy industry in a serious way...we [need to] send signals to the industry that the U.S. is serious about investing in nuclear power plants.”Fears about the safety of nuclear power are outdated; since the Three Mile Island incident, there have been no new major...
...high percentage of American children have low levels of vitamin D—a deficiency that could lead to a host of health problems, ranging from respiratory diseases to weak bones to the common cold—according to a recent study from Harvard-affiliated hospitals and the University of Colorado School of Medicine...
...Despite the image he is trying to project of a lone individual squaring off against a heartless judicial machine, Karadzic is far from defenseless. He has assembled a formidable team of some 30 legal advisers, headed by Patrick Robinson, an American lawyer who once worked for the ICTY. For the past several months, the team has showered the tribunal with more than 400 motions and appeals, causing substantial delays to the process...