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...rise of romanticism and the acceptance of the notion of ‘the unconscious’ may be contributing to the prevalence of the disorder. “Hollywood may be partly responsible for the persistence of this notion because film is perfectly suited to the whole concept of memory,” Pope said. “An entire storyline can be resolved by a flashback of a repressed memory.” —Staff writer Anupriya Singhal can be reached at asinghal@fas.harvard.edu...
...This concept seemed like a no-brainer to Fair Indigo CEO Bill Bass, a former Army paratrooper raised in Knoxville, Tenn., who worked for the U.S. Department of Education before entering the business sector. "It's hard for me to feel right about not paying people fairly," he says. "But most apparel companies are focused on cutting the cost of production and see the people in their factories as commodities and replaceable parts." In 2005, Bass and three other executives from Lands' End, where he had been working as e-commerce chief, decided to leave the company...
When fashion journalist Melissa Ceria moved from New York City to San Francisco two years ago, she carried with her a vision: to launch the concept of personal style at a new level. Last September she created ShareYourLook.com which gives men and women a virtual venue to explore and expand their fashion repertoires. The site's 4,000 members from 51 countries post photos of their outfits, then receive comments from other users?compliments, advice or queries about where to buy pieces in a look. "There's a wonderful confidence of people posting pictures and saying 'This...
...could be proof of a major role of mathematics in medieval Islamic art or it could have been just a way for artisans to construct their art more easily.” British scholar Roger Penrose was the first person to mathematically describe this concept in the Western world in the 1970s. Since then, the mathematical theory has been further refined by Steinhardt and Dov Levine, a physicist at the University of Pennsylvania. The new study—to be published in the upcoming issue of Science—links geometric concepts to Islamic art. The “girih...
...Yuri Ostrovsky, a graduate student at M.I.T. and lead author of the paper, "the best thing about it is the humanitarian aspect." Project Prakash has funded about half a dozen mobile eye camps--teams of ophthalmologists that travel to remote areas of the country and provide eye care. The concept itself isn't new, but unlike other camps, these are aimed just at children...