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...unlike ruminants, which produce gases that contribute 11% of Australia's greenhouse-gas emissions, kangaroos are naturally low greenhouse-gas emitters. The industry got a boost last fall when Ross Garnaut, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's top climate-change adviser, issued a global-warming report urging Australians to chuck their beef and lamb and throw more roo on the barbie...
...drama behind the art and the conservation behind the exhibit. Ongoing, The Museum of Fine Arts, $23 with student ID 3. Are you a member of “Fight Club”? Don’t tell us! (Keep rules 1 and 2, space monkey.) Instead go meet Chuck Palahniuk, the author behind Tyler Durden, at a discussion of his new book “Pygmy.” Tickets are available at the Harvard Book Store. Tuesday, May 5, 6 p.m., The Brattle Theater, $5 general admission / $27 for book signing. 4.For those who are oh-so-excited...
...first rationale for allowing executives like Lewis and Pandit to remain where they are is that the series of financial company CEO firings which took place less than two years ago was not effective. The results of the turnover were, by almost any measure, a failure. Chuck Prince at Citi was replaced by Pandit, who is considered a well-meaning dolt by most people. Stan O'Neal of Merrill Lynch was replaced by former NYSE CEO John Thain. Thain made the error on more than one occasion of saying the worst was behind Merrill only to end up selling...
...autobiography, Marilyn Chambers: My Story. At the New School for Social Research she was a guest speaker at the first session of its course "Pornography Uncovered, Eroticism Exposed." She got a tiny role in the 1970 Barbra Streisand comedy The Owl and the Pussycat. With her manager-husband Chuck Trayner (who had earlier promoted, married and misused Lovelace), she planned her next big step: breaking into mainstream films. (Read a Q&A with porn star Ron Jeremy...
...breakout film, Carrie), she was a compelling, scary and often sympathetic presence. In the 1992 book Cronenberg on Cronenberg, the director described Chambers as "very shrewd and sharp," and said she "invented her own version of Method acting. When she had to cry, it wasn't a problem, because Chuck would say, 'Remember when Fluffy died?' - that was her cat - and then she'd cry. I thought she really had talent and expected her to go on and do other straight movies. But she went back. I don't know whether it was Chuck or that the industry wouldn...