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...which was created by Courtney E. Thompson ’09 and emphasizes the connections of the characters (most of whom are farmers) with the earth, is amazing. It consists of several rows of uprooted trees which hover behind the main part of the stage. Rows of dirt, which the characters use to imply burial, cross the stage. The overall effect manages to create both a sense of unreality and of day-to-day existence...
...literary influences abound. He considers screenwriting a matter of simply putting a new spin on the classics.“I think stories are not created, they’re kind of discovered,” he says. “They’re already in the earth and we’re just sort of pulling them out.” Fitting with this claim, he cites Sophocles’ “Oedipus Rex” as the most direct literary influence for “First Snow,” specifically its theme of human nature...
...Though some scientists angrily denounced the IPCC report as a hobbled compromise even then, its predictions make frightening reading. The IPCC concludes that global warming has almost certainly triggered changes in the Earth's ecosystem that have already been felt in increased drought, shrinking glaciers and changing seasons, and these effects are expected to intensify. Freshwater stored in glaciers and snow cover will be lost, while rainfall will increasingly come in destructive deluges, reducing the water supply to one-sixth of the humanity - with the teeming masses dependent on the melt water from the Himalayas particularly hard...
...that the U.S. is "currently in a world war." Can you say explicitly whom we're fighting against? -Mike Murphy Mount Holly, N.J. We are fighting against a perversion of the Muslim faith led by radical clerics who have convinced a growing number of adherents that their purpose on earth is to kill, dismember and destroy as many people as possible...
...Faust and Grosz were “smart enough not to make a one-size-fits-all” program. Instead, they listened to potential fellows’ concerns and worked hard to accommodate them individually. Zuber divided her time between the Radcliffe Fellows and the Harvard Department of Earth and Planetary Science...