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...huge asset to ABC's bottom line. But the show has struggled recently, allowing CBS's The Early Show to approach it in the ratings. Without Sawyer that struggle gets even harder, and the show may have to reimagine itself as less anchor-driven. "I think what might happen now is there might be more sampling," says Zev Shalev, executive producer of The Early Show, which relies more on traditional news-reporting than star hosts. "That's a huge opportunity...
...complex systems. Researchers from Wageningen University, the University of Wisconsin and Scripps Institution of Oceanography found that an assortment of systems they studied all had critical thresholds that could trigger change from one state to another - changes that tend to be abrupt, not gradual. "Such threshold events don't happen that often, but they are extraordinarily important," says study co-author Stephen Carpenter of the University of Wisconsin. "They are the portals to change...
...anywhere.THC: Compared to what kind of choreography?LDK: Merce Cunningham is a classic example of the opposite. Merce would generate movement ideas completely independently of music and sometimes the dancers wouldn’t hear the music until the night of the concert. You would have them happen at the same time and whatever would happen, would happen, so a lot of it was… not accidental, but incidental. It also meant it was different every night. It’s a very different way of thinking about choreography.The guest choreographers who I asked to work with me have...
...When [unpopular governments] appear in other countries, there are movements in which people express their anger and demand change. But this doesn't happen in Japan because the LDP has held power for so long that the people have abandoned the possibility of standing up. Unfortunately, it seems that Japanese are not capable of showing what you call 'people power.' " - Newsweek, March...
...College has to begin a frank, informed discussion about how serious the issue of sexual assault is and what we can do to prevent it. It leaves students with jokes about sex and the attitudes that fuel rape as well as the impression that much more sex is happening at the College than truly is. At the end of the performance, the actors emphasize that something “magical” can happen when the lessons of the show are followed. They then proceed to jokingly discuss different sexual activities that the magic might entail. What a shame: Sexual...