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POLITICAL FALLOUT...
Radcliffe Institute Dean Drew Gilpin Faust said Friday that the fallout from University President Lawrence H. Summers’ remarks on females in science had generated “a moment of enormous possibility” for the advancement of women at Harvard...
University President Lawrence H. Summers walked into a meeting of prominent female professors yesterday hat in hand, hoping to stem the fallout from his controversial comments on women’s ability in the sciences...
...intentionally relevant one is HBO's Dirty War (Jan. 24, 9 p.m. E.T.), about a dirty bomb (a device packed with radioactive material that renders an area uninhabitable with its fallout) set off in London. The film was co-written and directed by Daniel Percival, a one-man VSDM industry; he also created Smallpox, a chilling mockumentary that aired this month on FX. Dirty War opens on a sight familiar from the news, an attack-simulation drill. The test is a sham--the responders are badly underequipped, and the casualty numbers are fudged--but the Minister for London (Helen Schlesinger...
...Tower in Chicago and the Empire State Building in Manhattan. All the rest are in Asia. A combination of factors--a sluggish commercial real estate market, skepticism about the profitability of very tall buildings even in good times, the rise of urban thinking critical of skyscrapers and the psychological fallout from 9/11--has discouraged today's American developers from going very, very high...