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...with his playful renditions of cigarette icon Joe Camel dressed as the Mona Lisa and other Western art figures. At the 1999 Venice Biennale, he exhibited fake magazine covers adorned with his face - a cheeky commentary on the overseas fame so many Asian artists crave. Now he produces soft-focus landscapes and chinoiserie portraits. Yet even though Zhou, 41, is a technically skilled graduate of Shanghai's top fine-art institute, he doesn't paint the artworks sold under his name. Instead, a bevy of assistants do the painting for him. The works sell for tens of thousands of dollars...
...this endeavor, universities must play a special role. The study of energy blends together topics from global geopolitics and economics to scientific advances and technological development, all of which must work in concert. Universities are uniquely positioned to focus on different fronts and possible solutions to our future energy needs, providing both a holistic approach to the problem and the research firepower to tackle it head on. Harvard in particular, with tremendous strengths in the sciences, the social sciences, and the world of policy, is positioned to play a particularly important part...
With a generous gift like Shell’s, Harvard has a great opportunity to focus research on one of the most pressing topics in our world today. We hope that Harvard takes full advantage of this opportunity to tackle the issues of energy security, climate change, and source sustainability from a multidisciplinary perspective and from all corners of the University...
...proverbial underworld, participants partake of the “fruit of life”—apple slices—before ending the ritual with a dance to raise energy in a “Cone of Power.” Despite the ritual’s focus on death, the realm of the dead doesn’t feature any red horns or pitchforks: “We have nothing to do with the devil,” says Phoenix. —Esther...
...committee to advise and make decisions on it,” Hogan said. “The gift they’ve given us is over a period of five years, so we’re trying to gear up now.” The donation reflects a deepening focus on energy policy research at the University, according to Kelly Sims Gallagher, the director of the Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group at the Kennedy School. “The Shell gift is just the first. It’s intended to be a broader initiative,” Gallagher...