Word: effective
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...drawings unfold themselves gorgeously across three floors of Mass MoCA, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, in North Adams, Mass. In a very unusual arrangement, "Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective" will remain on view there for at least 25 years. In effect, it's a quasi-permanent LeWitt museum. You should hurry to North Adams anyway. Life is brief, and this is something you don't want to miss. (Read Richard Lacayo's art blog here...
...Massachusetts Smoke-free Workplace Law, which went into effect in July 2004, made smoking illegal in most indoor public places, including offices, bars, and restaurants...
...negative publicity is having an effect on both companies and individuals. Scott Eckern, artistic director of the California Musical Theatre in Sacramento, whose $1,000 donation was listed on ElectionTrack, chose to resign from his post this week to protect the theater from public criticism. Karger says a "soft boycott" his group had started against Bolthouse Farms - which gave $100,000 to Prop. 8 - was dropped after he reached a settlement with the company. Bolthouse Farms was to give an equal amount of money to gay rights political causes. The amount ultimately equaled...
...Shamsher S. Samra, a first-year medical student, said that students had been prodding the administration to revamp the Medical School’s conflict of interest policies for roughly six years to little effect...
...Additionally, the handbook now states that pharmaceutical company representatives are not allowed to interact with students on campus, and industry sponsorship of student events is prohibited. Both had been informal policies that had “been in effect for many years” before being officially codified, administrators said...