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...with a bunch of friends on a 45-in. screen? Much was made of Soderbergh's experiment with Bubble--a minimalist, low-budget, no-star movie that opened nearly simultaneously in theaters, video stores and homes. And people didn't go for it in any format. Shyamalan sees a lesson there: "Bubble had $10 million worth of free publicity. Bubble had the advantage over any independent movie of its same ilk. It had so many advantages, and still it didn't perform. If Bubble did well, wouldn't that have been evidence that day-and-date works? Well, they tried...
...poultry farmers have already learned that hard lesson, having faced outbreaks of other avian flus as recently as 2002 and 2004. H5N1 is only one of more than 100 subtypes of the influenza A virus. The majority of the subtypes are found in birds. A few, such as H3N2 and H1N1, have adapted to infect humans. The 2002 avian outbreak, which struck in Virginia, was the H7N2 subtype, and it illustrated the importance of early detection. "The outbreak was not contained in time and spread to 200 farms up and down the Shenandoah Valley," says Lobb...
...received a Ph.D from FAS’ history department in 2000. At Brown University, he served as assistant dean for academic plannin before arriving in the Yard. Casey said he learned at Brown that faculty involvement in the recruiting process is essential for successful faculty growth—a lesson that he said he hopes to bring to his new appointment. “While it’s wonderful to expand the faculty, it’s actually quite hard to expand the faculty well,” he said. After eight weeks at Harvard, Casey said...
...called it, is a portrait of a black cleaning woman holding a mop and a broom in front of an American flag, with her solemn expression saying worlds about the limits that she - and he - ran up against every day. Parks would always carry with him the lesson of that picture. He applied it magnificently. His photographs, his books, his movies and his music are the work of a man who blew away those limits all his life...
Remembering their roots is the most important lesson that Dorino, now 80, has instilled in his sons (their sister Gisella doesn't work for the company). "Dignity, duty and enjoyment," he says. "If I had five minutes left with my son, I would tell him that is what life is about...