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...faculty support for the shows and hosting lectures and workshops with visiting and resident professionals might increase the A.R.T.’s campus presence. Paulus believes that the main solution lies in producing shows that Harvard students would actually want to see. “You have to foster that feeling that ‘I have to see that event!’” she says. “That’s what I’m trying to do with every show I program.”As part of this plan, Paulus...
...greatest hit, 1991's The Silence of the Lambs, was his high point - black and scary, but featuring a cannibal so smart and sardonic that you had no problem imagining Jodie Foster sort of falling for him - or at least having a wary dinner with him. This was Demme in from the fringe, operating in the mainstream - and about to lose his way with the ponderous, if well-meant, AIDS drama, Philadelphia. After that it has all been pomp and boredom - Beloved, The Manchurian Candidate, a documentary about Jimmy Carter, for heaven's sake...
...Corporation for National Service, a federal agency that works to foster volunteering and civic involvement in the United States, is awarding the grants as a way to attract top researchers to study government data on volunteering and civil engagement, according to Corporation spokesman Sandy Scott...
Abandoned ships wreak havoc on the marine ecosystem long after they've sunk. Decaying wreckages leach toxic chemicals like petroleum products and PCBs that remain in the water harming or destroying sea life and potentially enter the food chain, eventually getting ingested by humans. Sometimes dead watercraft foster the growth of new sea life that threatens the pre-existing local ecosystem. On Palmyra Atoll, 1,000 miles south of Hawaii, a population explosion of corallimorph, an aggressive creature similar to anemones and coral, killed almost all the coral growing around a long-line fishing vessel that sank in 1991, according...
...Clearly there is going to be great competition for all federal expenditures,” he said. “And we hope those that can be defended as building a foundation on which educational growth might foster, like education and research, might be successful even in a constrained budget...