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Harvard topped yet another ranked list on Thursday—this time it emerged as the most referenced American university in a Global Language Monitor survey of global media sources. In the two years that the Austin, Texas-based research company, has released this data, Harvard has taken the top spot both times. But this year, it managed to edge out Columbia by only 1.03 percent. GLM’s Predictive Quantitative Indicator tracks references of different American universities in global print and electronic media, including the Blogosphere and social media. Schools are viewed as trademarked brands, with...
...Take Slasher, for example, Allison Moore's comedy about an Austin, Texas, waitress who gets picked to play the last girl killed in a low-budget slasher film. Moore shows a real feel for the milieu: the Austin independent filmmaking scene, where cowboy film geeks meet up with cheeseball Hollywood wannabes. The encounter in which the film's hack director (a brilliantly smarmy Mark Setlock) discovers his star, Sheena, in a Hooters-style hangout, enlists her for his film and promptly gets rolled by her in contract negotiations, is as sharp and modulated a satire of Hollywood hucksterism as anything...
...students, the SCR remained largely unacknowledged. “When I was an undergraduate, the SCR had a mysterious quality. We didn’t know what it was about,” said J. Russell Muirhead ’88, who is a University of Texas at Austin professor and Eliot House SCR affiliate. But Muirhead alluded to the potential for occasional meaningful interaction in the SCR. As a senior, he recalled attending an SCR function in which he unintentionally sat next to the former Harvard Law School director of admissions.“After that night, I kept...
...fact that old habits die hard: any efforts to strengthen self-control, not just in eating but in all behaviors, must begin early, researchers say. "I think you can be trained to exhibit more self-control," says Dr. Ari Brown, a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics in Austin, Texas. "But it's harder to do, the older you get. As pediatricians, we have the chance to help parents create a lifestyle early on, so you don't have to go through behavior modification or a weight loss program to learn healthier eating habits. I think this information...
USAGE: "What a bankruptcy court might achieve is forcing those who hold GM or Chrysler's debt 'to take a haircut'--that is, get back less of their money than owed." --Austin American-Statesman, March...