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...Picasso's intentions, getting inside his darting, catch-me-if-you-can progress, from Cubism to Neoclassicism, from Surrealism to Guernica, was an all-important matter to that small but crucial category of American artists who had no use for the approved manner of the moment, American Scene realism. Grant Wood's farm folk and Thomas Hart Benton's small-town cuties were fine, if you didn't care about what painting could be. Although Picasso never set foot on American soil, in the intense conclaves of this would-be American avant-garde, his example hung in the air like...
...Utah, the leading U.S. vendor of classroom sound systems, sold 15,000 of them, up from 7,000 in 2002. Typical cost per classroom: $1,500. Reno, Nev., has added the devices to 52 schools over the past two years, and Palm Beach County, Fla., is using a federal grant to pay for systems in 27 poorly performing schools...
...done is continually remind people of the potential benefits of working together,” HCNR Director Adrian J. Ivinson said.Martin managed Harvard’s merger with the Dana-Farber Cancer Insitute in 1999. The move brought together more than 800 Harvard faculty and received a $50 million grant from the National Cancer Institute. In a similar vein, the Martin administration drove the development of the Harvard Clinical Research Institute, which funnels investments from businesses to the medical community.Martin also launched the HCNR, which helped link 700 scientists in an effort to combat neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer?...
...acre Harvard Forest is getting green—a lot of it—to promote green. The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced this week that it will award over $4.9 million to the Harvard Forest, an ecology and conservation center in Petersham, Mass. The grant is the largest in the center’s 99-year history, eclipsing the one NSF gave in 2000, the previous highest, by nearly one million dollars. The Harvard Forest will use the recent grant to support the work of over 25 scientists, and further research on issues like global warming, land use, invasive...
...LARS GRANT...