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...alternative to giving U.S. businesses a direct incentive to start hiring people tomorrow is waiting to see if the stimulus package will work on a grander scale. That would be simpler. Four or five large business sectors would get capital to offer hundreds of thousands of jobs each to create the equivalent of a new economy...
...jokingly called Silent Light the best film ever made in its language - an easy claim to fame, since it is probably the only film in which the characters speak Plautdietsch, the form of Low German used by the sect in Europe, Latin America and Canada. One could make a grander claim: that this is among the finest recent foreign films. And to viewers conditioned to the speed and swagger of Hollywood product, one of the most foreign. (See TIME's list of the top 10 films...
Despommier's plans are even grander. He has drawn up models for a 30-story, city-block-size vertical farm that would have transparent walls to maximize sunlight and would produce enough food for 50,000 people. "With about 160 of these buildings, you could feed all of New York," he says. His idea has intrigued architects, but Despommier concedes that it would cost hundreds of millions to build a full-scale skyscraper farm. That's the main drawback: construction and energy costs would probably make vertically raised food more costly than traditional crops. At least...
...grander scale, can bowstring diplomacy achieve anything? American orchestras have been musical ambassadors before. The Boston Symphony Orchestra played the Soviet Union in 1956, but the Cold War dragged on for decades. The Philadelphia Orchestra played Beijing in 1973, yet formal relations between the two nations weren't established until 1979. Even if you watch the NYP's Pyongyang adventure in slo-mo, you won't spot Kim Jong Il making nuclear concessions in a balcony suite while seduced by the universal language of music (he didn't attend). But at least you will see, at the concert's close...
...often easy to let a lot of life’s nuance pass by unnoticed. On alternate Wednesdays, Marina S. Magloire ’11 will call attention to these moments and to expound upon their hilarity, their poignancy, and their meaning in the grander scheme of things...