Word: interest
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...Shia LaBeouf or a Christian Bale, 9 gives us nine puppet-like dolls as stand-ins for humanity, manufactured by the same scientist whose invention of a giant "brain" machine lead to the ruin of man. The filmmakers refer to these as "stitchpunk creations," but in the interest of plain English, we're opting for the term doll. Hand-stitched from either burlap or canvas, the dolls have smooth, rounded heads and protuberant eyes; they look like early aviators. They are both homespun and spooky, like the kind of child's toy that might be purchased at an all-organic...
...league's huge, dedicated fan base. But if it begins to have a wider impact, frequent local blackouts could do some long-term damage to the NFL's business. In Detroit, Yuille believes that after five Lions games were blacked out last year, casual fans completely lost interest in football. "More than anything, television is a mass-market promoter of a sport," says Zimbalist. "You don't want to cut that...
...standing committees. In multiple instances, students have organized to demand more academic options. The last big student push was in 2002, when a coalition failed to win approval for a certificate in ethnic studies. The committee’s current revival has come in response to interest from the Undergraduate Council and the Ethnic Studies Coalition, an unofficial student group that formed last spring to advocate for the subject’s revitalization. Various faculty members, over 20 of whom now sit on the committee, also supported the effort.The Standing Committee’s input contributed to the hiring...
...program is not mandatory. The rush seems to go beyond the normal “beginning-of-term insanity,” according to Stephanie H. Kenen, administrative director of the program in General Education. Administrators had not anticipated the number of juniors and seniors who have shown interest in graduating under Gen Ed in an attempt to gain greater flexibility in their scheduling. Given that all new Gen Ed classes have been engineered to fulfill a Core requirement, and that the 2008-2009 Harvard Student Handbook recommends that the Classes of 2010 and 2011 opt for the Core, more...
...given ICCAT's track record of failing to evenly enforce its own limitations, WWF's MacLoughlin doesn't see that as a likely outcome. "Maybe in the E.U. the quotas are working," he says. "But as long as you've got countries like Libya where the major commercial interest in the industry is controlled by the leader's son, and there's no respect either for science or for the rule of law, a temporary ban on all trade is going to be the only way to save the fishery." (See pictures of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi...