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Everybody, I mean everybody who's anybody in movies, or hopes to be, is in Park City, Utah, this week for the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. In this Lourdes of independent movies, hermitty young auteurs will schmooze with Hollywood's BlackBerry set. From the ferment of high art and hype art will emerge new faces, new voices and, I can almost guarantee, at least one film that will figure in next year's Oscar race--just as Little Miss Sunshine, from Sundance '06, is being touted for a Best Picture Academy Award nomination...
...took Leipold eight years and all €1.5 million of the family's money to perfect the recipe. Leipold found a way to ferment a nonalcoholic drink by converting the sugar that normally becomes alcohol into nonalcoholic gluconic acid. And because the acid strengthened the taste of sugar, Leipold only needed a fraction of the sugar found in a normal soft drink. Then came the flavors - elderberry, lychee, orange-ginger and herb - plus a spritz of carbonation...
...stepchildren and adopted children, as well as co-parents and friends who are co-opted as carers. For better or worse - and these changes all carry economic and emotional consequences - most European adults no longer live their lives in the bosom of a nuclear family. One result of this ferment is fewer children, and the French are far from alone among West European governments in seeking to encourage population growth, fearing economic stagnation as the workforce dwindles. For some governments, that means pushing traditional values. Others are trying to work with social change. In its first term of office, Britain...
...recent poll, Americans said between 10 and 20 percent of the GDP has been spent.” To fight AIDS and poverty, Harvard should play a key role in helping the grassroots efforts, Bono said. “What Harvard and campuses can do is ferment the movement,” Bono said. “And that’s what’s going to change the game.” In addition to student involvement, Bono said he and Summers had discussed the possibility of a future collaboration with Harvard. Bono said he could not specify...
...elegant calligraphy based on mathematical principles of proportion, and gilded and enameled glassware that required sophisticated technology to keep the brilliant colors from running together. Yet for all its treasures, the show never solves the modern puzzle of Arab science: What happened to the openness to ideas, the intellectual ferment, the spirit of innovation that created all these wonderful objects? Perhaps one day soon the Institute of the Arab World can mount a new exhibition that will help provide the answer...