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Stevie Wonder had a vision. In a music-industry first, the video for So What the Fuss, the single from the blind balladeer's album due next month, is enhanced with narration for the visually impaired. As Wonder performs the song onscreen, raspy rapper Busta Rhymes describes the visuals: "Stevie's playing a pearl-white drum set ..." he tells listeners. Calling the project a "breakthrough," Wonder says he's enlisting other artists to add descriptive narration to their videos as well. Before it catches on, we'd like to warn the visually impaired: Christina Aguilera sounds a lot better when...
Skip the hotel gym the next time you're in continental Europe: head for a jog beside the Danube instead. This khaki-colored river (Johann Strauss must have been either color-blind or in the throes of poetic license when he put "Blue" into the title of his famous waltz) is lined with hiking and jogging trails that make it one of the region's best-kept recreational secrets...
Skip the hotel gym the next time you're in Continental Europe: head for a jog beside the Danube instead. This khaki-colored river (Johann Strauss must have been either color-blind or extending his poetic license when he put "Blue" into the title of his famous waltz) is lined with hiking and jogging trails that make it one of the region's best-kept recreational secrets. The 2,850 km-long Danube kicks off in Germany's Black Forest and flows eastward through 10 countries to the Black Sea . Once part of the Roman Empire's border against barbarian...
...admissions process was race-blind and based solely on grades and test scores, Ferguson said at the panel, “The class would be almost entirely white and Asian...
She’s an aging actress with a loud voice who never quite made it anywhere on Broadway and settled into a life of teaching theater to small-town bumpkins like me. But in the land of the blind, the one-eyed brassy broad is queen, I suppose, because we naïve little actor-types just worshipped her. Part of Frances’s mystique was her past contact with a special subset of actors to which Lithgow, this year’s Harvard Commencement speaker, belongs...