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Since the advent of the internet, sociologists and anthropologists have been scrambling to make sense of the social phenomenon. The academics, though, are often behind the times, writing about a fad a year after it’s passe. For instance, researchers of online social networking still study the chat room craze, even though many people exited chat rooms for good in the mid 90?...
Once beloved of Communist central planners as well as progressive Western architects at the dawn of the space age, revolving restaurants may forever be considered kitsch. But given the fad for all things retro, their popularity seems to have come, well, full circle. The sweeping urban views they offer are also more dramatic today than in the 1960s. Here are three of the best?use them as an icebreaker on that first date, or as behavioral therapy for your acrophobe friends...
Zero 7’s 2001 debut, Simple Things, featured the great single “Destiny,” which got moderate play on MTV and exemplified what was to be the fad of “chill-out” music—electronic keyboards, acoustic guitars, a slow beat and that sexy, sexy female voice. Two years later, When It Falls tries to recapitulate the same feeling of relaxed, soulful bliss. The trouble is the whole chill-out thing feels weary and used-up. While Air and Britain’s Kinobe have moved on to more...
Seventeen of the 20 positions eliminated come from the University’s Financial Administration Department (FAD...
...Berman, Harvard’s chief financial officer and vice president for FAD, sent a letter to all FAD employees last Wednesday telling them that most of the other positions slated for termination in the upcoming months will be from departments other than FAD...