Word: birger
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...first: the dancers frequently seemed out of sync, and their gestures were jerky and angular, but it gradually became clear that their movements were stylized interpretations of the unhinged dancing of rock concert revelers. “Sparks,” an ensemble piece choreographed by Ruthie B. Birger ’06, was easily the recital’s most energetic performance. In this quirky number, the dancers stomped and leapt about the stage in perfect unison to the tune of Mongo Santamaria’s world-pop rave-up “Afro Blue...
Ruthie B. Birger ’06, who lives two tube stops from King’s Cross, wrote in an e-mail that “when I got to the [Finsbury Park] station there was an announcement that it was [closed] and that we should take the buses....At the time I thought it was only my tube station that was closed but as the bus drove through north and central London I saw hundreds of people waiting at the stops so I realized something else was going...
...fall—while their classmates studied the breakability of certain brands of chalk—three intrepid students in Statistics 140: Experimental Design undertook research that was a bit more captivating. Cassandra K. Wolos ’06, Alexander S. Captain ’06, and Ruthie B, Birger ’06 decided to investigate the question most central to the integrity of the student press: whether or not the Crimson is visually representative of the student body. They randomly selected students pictured in the daily and FM, then pulled the most flattering shots of them, the college...
...high initial investment costs, wind power is still not economical without some form of subsidy. Wind's advocates call subsidies a necessary anti-pollution tradeoff. "If you decide to pay only the market price for coal- and gas-fired plants, it's not possible to make clean electricity," says Birger T. Madsen, who runs a wind consultancy in Copenhagen. Denmark offers a good example. Thanks to tax incentives and subsidized prices, the country now has 6,500 windmills. But since the government decided that wind power should be priced according to the market two years ago, construction of new turbines...