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...knows that, when making a big movie, you do not leave your I.Q. at the soundstage door; you bend your gifts in different directions. He lends Iron Man the unobtrusive speed and precision of classic comedy. An actor before he was a director, he's not content to let his stars play stereotypes, or even archetypes. Bridges and Toub, and Gwyneth Paltrow as Stark's gal Friday (the most attractive she's been in years), aren't slumming in the least. They're rising to the material, and elevating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Iron Man': A Movie Marvel | 5/1/2008 | See Source »

...printers to jam. But Olmsted said Harvard Medical School sponsored a recycled paper challenge to show the quality of recycled paper and to encourage the school to make the change. Gogan said that recycled paper has advantages, as it is more opaque than virgin paper, and drawbacks since its content can be unknown. But Gogan said the differences are slight. Gogan added that the U.S. government has been using 30 percent recycled paper since 1996 to print items such as treasury notes and postage stamps. Dollar bills are printed on 100 percent recycled paper and Harvard watermark paper...

Author: By Chelsea L. Shover, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Council Pushes Recycled Paper Use | 4/30/2008 | See Source »

...affairs, etc., what we wanted to do in this report was show the many ways that people with graduate degrees from U.S. universities have contributed to the public good,” said Stuart Heiser, spokesman for CGS. Dean of GSAS Allan M. Brandt said he agreed with the content of the report. “I have always been convinced that graduate education fundamentally serves the public good,” Brandt wrote in an e-mail. “This report draws attention to a core ideal in higher education; namely that graduate education serves the public good...

Author: By Synne D. Chapman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Grad Degrees Help Society | 4/29/2008 | See Source »

...other blockbusters.“The idea is to produce a scholarly account of film, to offer a platform where students, professors, and professionals can all contribute,” Whitaker says. During her tenure as president, Whitaker articulated that vision and used it to substantially strengthen the content and staff of a magazine that Bruce Jenkins, former curator of the Harvard Film Archive, has called “one of the finest student film publications in this country.” Under Whitaker’s leadership, the Cinematic began publishing bianually instead of once a year and established...

Author: By Mary A. Brazelton, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rachel E. Whitaker | 4/29/2008 | See Source »

...Every knowledgeable agriculturist knows that there is a plant with very high methanol content that grows well on land already too desalinated to grow food, which actually rejuvenates its host soil a little with every crop: hemp. Planting the 30% of our planet's arable land that is already too desalinated to grow food with hemp for the next two decades would give us plenty of biofuel without interrupting vital food production. Robert James-Herbert, sydney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 4/25/2008 | See Source »

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