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...forest and its Maya ruins. Gibson and his rookie cowriter on Apocalypto, Farhad Safinia, were captivated by the ancient Maya, one of the hemisphere's first great civilizations, which reached its zenith about A.D. 600 in southern Mexico and northern Guatemala. The two began poring over Maya myths of creation and destruction, including the Popol Vuh, and research suggesting that ecological abuse and war-mongering were major contributors to the Maya's sudden collapse, some 500 years before Europeans arrived in the Americas...
...Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) Theda Skocpol announced a number of new initiatives within the GSAS at yesterday’s meeting, including the creation of a secondary field in film and visual studies for PhD students and the availability of $15,000 to $25,000 in seed grants to fund planned improvements in graduate education...
...With “God Lives in St. Petersburg,” author Tom Bissell, who also spoke with The Crimson, seems like a contemporary counterpart to this esteemed company, with his creation of a confection of intricately poignant stories about Americans drifting lost in Central Asia...
...addition, Gross touts the creation of the interdisciplinary life sciences classes that were first offered this academic year...
Passed unanimously by the Council, the report recommended that Harvard Libraries offer training to faculty and TFs to make articles available through E-Resources on course web sites. The report also recommended the creation of a “centralized resource efficiency optimization center” that would hire work-study students to assemble the online resources that could replace or reduce the cost of printed coursepacks...