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...that ratings will follow them through the roof. Four weeks a year, networks inundate the TV-viewing public with a veritable flood of plot-twisting, cringe-inducing, shark-jumping moments in the hopes they'll tune in - please, just tune in - in order to give the networks a vital boost during the critical periods when Nielsen Media Research takes its regular survey of TV viewing habits. (See the top 10 disastrous Letterman interviews...
...seems there is no similar outcry from Hopkins, where students and faculty may actually be excited about the project. In a Student Announcement from Dennis O'Shea, in Communications and Public Affairs at Hopkins, the school officially welcomes the film team, citing the boost such a project can bring to a local film industry struggling amid the recession...
...audience going to believe Hopkins extras for stand-in Harvard students. Good luck trying to procure enough J.Crew loafers and North Face backpacks to make that work. Though, come to think of it, this financial boost thing seems rather practical. Maybe Harvard should've started recouping endowment losses sooner by opening its gates to film crews...
...beginnings of real change. In Senegal, 2008 protests sparked by rising food prices scared the government into instituting a program to make the country of 12 million people less dependent on imported grain. Grandly named the Great Agricultural Offensive for Food and Abundance, or GOANA, policymakers aimed to boost local agricultural production by subsidizing seeds, doling out farm implements and speeding up irrigation investments. The program convinced Ngor Sarr, a subsistence farmer in the region of Fatick in western Senegal, and the other members of his agricultural cooperative to expand their paddy fields last year. Though the seeds he received...
...month after a massacre of protesters by government troops drew international condemnation. The unnamed firm will dig for diamonds, gold and bauxite and provide Guinea with much-needed revenue as it faces the prospect of economic isolation. The deal--which could give Guinea's $23 billion GDP a massive boost--puts China in direct competition with U.S. and Russian mining companies. China's trade interests in Africa have increased tenfold since...