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...Douglas W. Sears ’69, former president of the Inter-Club Council, the board that oversees the eight male final clubs, has told The Crimson he favors the recent turn towards clubs which look less like “function halls” and more like traditional, male-only retreats. But where does this leave women at a school without even a centralized student center...
Right now, the club has six founding members, all juniors: Thebaud, Chavez, Schraa, Caroline L. Donchess, Brittany J. Garza and Maria S. Pedroza, also a Crimson editor. Sablière plans to invite 30 women to a wine and cheese function off-campus this fall, according to Chavez, from which they will choose about 10 more women to form a core group. This spring, the society will hold a selection process that will be invite-only and almost identical to a final club punch...
Lighting too has "entered a whole new dimension," says Collins. Low-voltage dimming systems now allow users to program the lights in a room to suit a given function, mood or time of day. Even floor lamps are programmable. It's environmental control in two ways: the home's infrastructure is more efficient, and the setting can be made more aesthetically pleasing...
...none of these sites is really out to eliminate the traditional editorial function. What they have done is find electronic methods of repackaging the work of human reporters and editors. Google is trying to keep the inner workings of its robo-editor secret, but I did find out it uses more than 150 different criteria to cull its story list from those 4,000 news sources. Example: a boldface headline centered at the top of a Web page is considered more relevant than a smaller one farther down the page...
...master plan for a high-tech city on a 200-hectare site, a sort of Singapore Silicon Valley scheduled to take 20 years and something like $15 billion to complete. The diversity of her projects springs from Hadid's ability to marry florid form to nuts-and-bolts function, as in the Leipzig car plant for BMW: Hadid has designed the building around its product. "The entire work force will have to move through one zone to their respective parts, the cars also going through it. There is no split between management, design, manufacture. It's a new work landscape...