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DIED. MARGRET E. REY, 90, co-creator, with her late husband Hans Augusto Rey, of Curious George, a children's-book series about a mischievous monkey; in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The diminutive Rey sometimes served as her husband's model for their famous creation, making faces and jumping from chair to chair. Said Rey: "My husband always called me curious. But then I think most people...
...happening on campus, but Facebook group membership is completely arbitrary. Just because a group has 200 members, it does not mean the group’s “idea” is important to all 200. Nor does it mean that the group’s creator is an authority on the subject, because there are no prerequisites for making Facebook groups...
...agreed with Mandel and said that “within the next couple of years we’re going to see a lot more start-ups.” Some of the guests offered their outlook on the process of creating tech companies. Stephen Wolfram—the creator of the software package Mathematica—credited common sense with the success of his company, Wolfram Research. One of the bigger names to speak was Steve Wozniak, who narrated the early history of Apple, the company he co-founded. He paraphrased a remark that Apple co-founder Steve Jobs...
...interview circuit, but the movie’s most recognizable players are made of plasticine clay. What’s a marketing team to do? The studio’s solution is to send out the film’s co-director/co-screenwriter, Nick Park, the creator of the Wallace and Gromit characters. There’s just one problem: Park is just not cut out for interviews. At one point in speaking to The Harvard Crimson, he loses his train of thought and pauses silently just long enough to make everyone in the room uncomfortable. He may just...
...their uniformed friends or a macabre still of war casualties—for free access to pornography. Converting their art into the currency of eroticism, these soldiers are fueling a new industry and creating a cult of warnography.A moralist in his own mind, the site’s creator and administrator, Chris Wilson, congratulated himself in an article published last week by the Online Journalism Review (OJR). The OJR profiles Wilson as an interesting altruist; the report describes how, after its launch in 2004, the site became popular with American soldiers who then began “having trouble using...