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Many consider the '60s and '70s to be the quintessential time for rock 'n' roll. Has music taken a turn for the worse? -Mark Cowden, Shelbyville Ky.No. I just hope that some of these new bands can make an imprint like the Stones and the Beatles did in their...
...Ireland, while its fish diversity is rivaled only by the Amazon. But even as many of the world's other majestic rivers - the Nile, the Yangtze, the Mississippi - were efficiently exploited for trade or hydropower, the 3,000-mile (4,800-km) Mekong has until recently largely escaped the imprint of the modern world. During the colonial era, treacherous rapids stymied expeditions hoping to uncover its upstream secrets, leaving the waterway for local fishermen and farmers. By the mid-1900s, when the West was forced to withdraw from Indochina, the Mekong had become a byword for the failure of modern...
Oprah Winfrey and Nan Talese are giants in their respective fields. Talese is a publishing legend whose imprint at Doubleday includes such prestigious authors as Margaret Atwood, Pat Conroy, Ian McEwan and Antonia Fraser. Oprah Winfrey is, of course, Oprah. The last time the two women met was on Winfrey's show in January 2006, when one of Talese's authors, James Frey, famously apologized for the lack of veracity in his book A Million Little Pieces as Oprah berated him and withdrew her Book Club's lucrative endorsement of the book. All the while, Talese sat next...
...landscape of international outposts is as varied as the landscape of the centers at Harvard,” says Coolidge Professor of History David Blackbourn, who is the director of CES. “They should all be different and appropriate to particular people who have put their imprint there...
...more than 300 by year-end. The common denominator of working here is change--constant, even calamitous at times, but vibrant. Workers average a new deployment, a step in developing new-media services, every 2 1/2 weeks. They are people who are motivated by how they leave an imprint on their world. And one thing is certain: television will never be the same. MobiTV has liberated TV from the box in the living room and transformed it into what more than one person calls the "65-year-old killer...