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Supposedly, Americans are abandoning shared cultural pursuits for loner entertainments on our iPods and HDTVs. But thanks to technological advances, concert films are starting to envelop audiences in a way nearly as dramatic as live events, at a fraction of the price. And audiences--and the market--are responding. Acts as disparate as U2 and the Metropolitan Opera are appearing this month in multiplexes all over the world. Even Martin Scorsese is giving a nod to the audience's higher sensory appetites, releasing his Rolling Stones film, Shine a Light, in the larger-than-life IMAX format...
...Hafer finished fifth in the men’s 3K with a time of 8:49.97, and classmate Sarah Bourne ran the women’s 5K in 18:17.90 to lock up the fourth-place spot.Juniors Shannon Flahive and Dara Wilson finished the 100-meter hurdles just a fraction of a second apart to place third and fourth with times of 14.46 and 14.47, respectively.In the men’s 400-meter hurdles, sophomore Justin Grinstead notched a fourth-best finish, completing the event in 54.14.Harvard filled its women’s distance medley squad with freshman...
...Democratic Party decide, when the primaries end, that neither Obama nor Clinton is viable. Let's also assume-and this may be a real stretch-that such elders are strong and smart enough to act. All they'd have to do would be to convince a significant fraction of their superdelegate friends, maybe fewer than 100, to announce that they were taking a pass on the first ballot at the Denver convention, which would deny the 2,025 votes necessary to Obama or Clinton. What if they then approached Gore and asked him to be the nominee, for the good...
...completely new to us. When you spend your life outfitting patients with the Joe Dokes Knee Prosthesis, you get a glimmer that Joe Dokes himself must be making some money on the thing. But there are 17,000 orthopedists in the U.S., and with this convention a large fraction of us came to the simultaneous realization that just about all of our teachers and mentors - the surgeons we hold in high regard, who do the important research, who work in the teaching programs, who write the papers and give us these lectures - are "consultants...
...develop a system that can shoot down one missile, but that is a long cry from developing a system that does not leak," he says. Such shortcomings in a nuclear defense system clearly would be disastrous. Even if a system were 90% effective, the leakage of just a fraction of Moscow's 8,500 or so warheads could be devastating. Says Kosta Tsipis, co-director of a program in science and technology at M.I.T.: "The critical failure of all these defensive systems is that they must be perfect. Less than that and they are ruinous. What the President is offering...