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...Electric Lamp Sitting in a brightly lit classroom at the Stanford Business School three years ago, Matt Scott got to wondering what it would take to light the rest of the world. Artificial lighting may not seem a necessity like food or shelter, but 1.6 billion people around the globe lack access to electricity. Inspired by the Light Up the World Foundation, which promotes the use of energy-efficient light-emitting diodes (LEDs), Scott, now 31, traveled to India and in 2004 partnered with Amit Chugh to devise a market strategy for replacing the kerosene lamp. The result...
...decade, playwright Eve Ensler has gotten women around the globe to say the word vagina - a lot. Her play "The Vagina Monologues" is an annual institution at theaters worldwide and benefit performances have raised millions for anti-violence causes. Ensler, 53, has now set her sights on the issue of terror. She addresses the subject in "The Treatment," a play which recently opened in New York City, and in her first book, "Insecure at Last," a political memoir, which will be released next week. TIME's Carolina A. Miranda spoke with her about our security-conscious age, Hillary Clinton...
...Princeton, 3.4 43. Harvard, 2.1 44. Brown, 2.1 63. Dartmouth, 1.7THE CRIMSON RESUSCITATES rumors of Cornel West's return to Cambridge from Princeton. Some professors in the African and African American studies department say they've been discussing it since the spring. This piece follows a Boston Globe report in June that broached the same possibility. Will the Prince pick it up soon...
...want to be unfurling cumbersome travel maps on the Champs Elysées? Maybe it's time to ditch your oldfangled maps for a handy new schmap. This innovative, free travel software, downloadable from schmap.com, lets travelers[an error occurred while processing this directive] of both the armchair and globe-trotting variety build their own custom destination guides to any of more than 150 cities in the U.S., Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Co-founded by Britons Paul Hallett and Nick Fletcher in 2004, Schmap boasts a sophisticated mapping engine that combines comprehensive local listings with zoomable, interactive city...
Asked about the website last month, Etchemendy wrote in an e-mail to the Boston Globe, “Well, that’s a kick...