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...should explore the possibility of allowing books that are published through its own publishing house to be scanned. Many important works, such as the Loeb Classical Library series, could be made available to Google in this way. We feel that Harvard should continue to offer its support in this endeavor and lead the industry in proactive measures. Less praiseworthy has been the publishing industry’s response to the Google endeavor. It is no surprise that as the world digitalizes, the book will follow to one degree or another, and publishing companies are well aware of this. By choosing...
Over the past two decades, wall street and the rest of the financial ecosystem became obsessed with the quantification of risk. Assigning numbers to the chance of something bad happening is a centuries-old endeavor--mortality tables have been used to devise insurance premiums since the 18th century. With modern computing power, though, financial engineers captured, packaged and sold risk exposure in startlingly new ways. Buying protection against a bad corn harvest or a spike in interest rates was just the beginning. Over time, as instruments became more complex, a huge shift occurred. Risk itself became the thing to trade...
...most prominent newspaper to end print on such a large scale. Posting net losses, the newspaper just could not sustain the costs of daily print in the wavering economy any longer.Additionally, magazines such as Jane, CosmoGirl, Teen Vogue, Radar, and Condé Nast’s new endeavor, Men’s Vogue, are facing similar struggles with failed advertising objectives, resulting in heavier emphasis on the online versions, or even suspension of the magazine’s publication at all.Tom F. Allon, CEO of Manhattan Media, which currently runs 12 New York City-based publications, including 02138, offers some...
...When it comes to human endeavor, of course, there is no such thing as permanence - something the exhibition poignantly illustrates. Even under the care of the world's best curators, the paint on some of the icons has begun to chip. Cormack says an embossed icon of St. Michael and several ivories from St. Mark's Basilica in Venice are so fragile they will probably never be allowed to travel again. Even Yeats' beloved mechanical nightingales are long gone; we know of them only through accounts from their time...
...developing world, ecological modernization—or Captain Planet Economics (CPE)—is mostly a low-scale endeavor. The results are even more striking. For years, the buildings of the late vernacular architect Laurie Baker have helped alleviate poverty in India and done nothing to worsen climate change. Baker’s adobe abodes, which constitute the majority of the edifices in Thiruvananthpuram, Kerala are made mostly out of a resource requiring zero fuel: mud. The buildings often lack doors and have awkward gaps between the bricks to facilitate cooling. Baker’s team, the Centre...