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...adult titles, including Mere Christianity (a collection of those radio talks) and The Screwtape Letters (a set of funny-creepy faux missives from a senior devil to his nephew), sold 843,000 copies, twice as many as in 2001. Multiple books about Lewis debut annually; this year's crop features Jacobs' biography and Jack's Life (Broadman & Holman) by Lewis' stepson Douglas Gresham. In 1947, a TIME cover story hailed Lewis as "one of the most influential spokesmen for Christianity in the English-speaking world." Now, 58 years later (and 42 after his death, in 1963), he could arguably...
...DECORATING FOR THE DOGS? When designer Kim Bull couldn't find suitable sleeping quarters for her mutt, she started Wowbow, a line of sleek acrylic beds, below. They're part of a new crop of fancy pet furniture that includes English-style beds from Cath Kidston (cathkidston.com) and hip variations like Fatboy's camouflage-print beanbag lounges (muttropolis.com...
...until the end of shopping week when we get our study card signed and turn it in. And as of last spring, at the end of term we can now write CUE guide reviews online about all the classes we never went to in person, so that the next crop of people intending to skip them will know which classes are the best ones to miss. All of this conspires towards a very difficult question. A student who carefully chose his classes to include only those with few exams, optional sections, taped lectures, and the possibility of submitting assignments online...
...direction," says Amory Lovins, director of the Rocky Mountain Institute, a think tank that advocates a radical restructuring of the energy economy. Shell has become the largest seller of biofuels, he says: "We're talking about new processes for turning woody, weedy plants like switch grass and poplar--also crop waste like wheat straw--into cellulosic ethanol...
Perhaps more than any other sector, Harvard’s media scene has fallen victim to this lure of independence—and the new year’s crop of upstart publications is proof that students would rather create redundant projects than adjust to an existing niche...