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...images of the scanned material. Verba said that his goal is to digitize as many of Harvard’s books as possible—eventually all those out of copyright—rather than doing so selectively. In contrast, Trainer said that Princeton would solicit faculty and student input on picking the fraction of its library collection to be digitized. Harvard’s libraries, which compose the largest university system in the world, hold more than 15 million volumes, dwarfing the more than 6 million volumes in the Princeton system. Verba estimates that the out-of-copyright books...
Advisory group chair Matthew J. Murray said he hoped that “an ongoing institutional mechanism” would be created to give students “input to the president on matters of concern for the University...
...meant having to relinquish creative control - something Perry found very hard to do." But when Kerry Michael and Dawn Reid, directors of Stratford's Theatre Royal, on a trip to Jamaica four or five years ago, knocked on his door, they were only too pleased to have his creative input. So the musical version of The Harder They Come, as adapted by Perry Henzell and directed by Kerry Michael and Dawn Reid, opened last March at Stratford's 460-seat Theatre Royal, a plush Victorian-era playhouse with a modern mission to foster black and community productions. Against expectations...
...Mayer Francis Vercamer, once a resident of the Haut Champs slums. To effect that change, Vercamer has launched a $200 million project to revolutionize the area by razing larger, dehumanizing tower blocks and replacing them with hundreds of smaller apartment units and individual homes; refurbishing existing housing with the input and advice of their occupants; and creating commercial hubs in the hope of attracting businesses and new jobs...
...SCIENTISTS PROBE the limits of neuroplasticity, they are finding that mind sculpting can occur even without input from the outside world. The brain can change as a result of the thoughts we think, as with Pascual-Leone's virtual piano players. This has important implications for health: something as seemingly insubstantial as a thought can affect the very stuff of the brain, altering neuronal connections in a way that can treat mental illness or, perhaps, lead to a greater capacity for empathy and compassion. It may even dial up the supposedly immovable happiness set point...