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...proposal—more than four years in the making—the school’s full-time faculty will expand by approximately 30 positions—through joint appointments with other graduate schools and FAS positions—to bring the total faculty size to 100. By contrast, CalTech and Princeton have cultivated faculties of more than 100 professors, and cross-town competitor MIT has nearly 360 engineering faculty, according to Venky. Keeping with tradition, the school will not segregate into academic departments under the plan. In addition, the new school will allow DEAS professors to better collaborate...
...Highlights of the program: SHEEP DRIVE Heard the one about the farmer, the shepherds and the five dogs herding 60 sheep through the city? London's changed just a bit since the [an error occurred while processing this directive] woolly ones regularly walked the streets to market, so to contrast old and new uses of London's roads, the animals will be driven between Borough and Smithfield markets via the ultramodern Millennium Bridge that spans the Thames. Norman Foster, the bridge's architect, plans to lead the way. PETER ACKROYD'S THAMES On the same bridge - the first...
...that let viewers skip ads altogether. Meanwhile, video games, iPods, the Internet and other diversions are tempting people away from the tube. Europeans with Internet connections, for instance, spent an average of 10 hours, 15 minutes a week online last year, a 17% increase over 2004. Watching TV, by contrast, grew by only 6%. Viewing habits may change, but the need to advertise products remains. Thus advertisers are hoping that "one-pipe" convergence will remodel the landscape. That's when a single broadband feed into your home will hook into one device that operates your TV, PC, dvd player...
First, they aren’t bound by the same standard of accuracy. Traditional media has to draw a very distinct line between fact and opinion—interpretations are explicitly designated, conflicts of interest are expressly named. In contrast, live-blogging reports and online analyses carry the semblance of factual objectivity without any sort check to personal bias, and when they’re the public’s primary information source, this semblance can be mistaken for authenticity...
...contrast could not be more marked between Putin's increasingly assertive stance vis-a-vis the U.S. and the pliant posture of Boris Yeltsin. Yeltsin was always more popular in the West than he was among his countrymen, especially as they felt the effects of his reforms on their standard of living and watched their country's geopolitical status plummet in as little as five years from that of superpower to that of a harmless family drunk...