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...except for the small hope of an underground city: Ember City. This is the premise of director Gil Kenan’s new film “City of Ember,” based on the young-adult novel of the same name by Jeanne DuPrau. A portion of Earth??s population moves to Ember, a glittering metropolis, “for the good of all mankind”—or so say The Builders, the team that masterminded the city. Although the film disappoints at times with flat supporting performances and under-developed background...
...debate about whether the Earth??s climate is changing and whether humans had a role in it is over,” McCarthy said. “Now the question is what are we going...
...altogether, turning from the familiar, but distorted, Mercator projection to a Dymaxion map. The commonly used Mercator projection developed in 1568 maps the globe on a rectangular, flat surface which stretches vertical distances. Conversely, the Dymaxion map, developed by former Harvard poetry professor and visionary, R. Buckminster Fuller, projects Earth??s surface onto a polyhedron, minimizing distortion. Not only do Dymaxion maps more accurately represent geography, they also avoid placing countries in accordance with the north-is-good, south-is-bad formula implicit in the tendentious original Mercator. In fact, in 1974, Dr. Arno Peters developed...
...completed a scavenger hunt for sustainability information at all of the student tables in order to get a free Earth Day Nalgene bottle. David A. Wax ’05 brought his band, The David Wax Museum, to perform “’Cause I Love the Earth?? and to support the EAC, he said. Mushegian said that the broad variety of groups in attendance showed the different facets of sustainability. “All of the different student groups address different aspects of what it means to be environmentally active,” she said...
...couple is fragile, though, and soon broken apart, as Hema moves on to her arranged marriage in India and Kaushik to Thailand for a brief vacation en route to his new job in Hong Kong. While the longer format of the stories in “Unaccustomed Earth?? allows Lahiri to more thoroughly investigate her themes, occasionally her structure collapses underneath the weight of the accumulated detail. Fortunately, such lapses do not detract from the work’s overall achievement. It remains a beautifully crafted collection that is able to express the nearly inexpressible: our shared worries...