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...resident of Dunster House at the time, Segal admitted to using at least two students he had met in the house as models for the story’s protagonist: former Vice President Al Gore ’69 and actor Tommy Lee Jones ’69, roommates who lived near Segal...
Langelaar, who is based in Rotterdam, and Vasiliev, who works in Berlin, first met in 2002 during their undergraduate studies. The pair met Savicic while in art school in the Netherlands in 2007. They describe their work as "geek chic." Suicide Machine isn't the first collaborative new-media project for the trio, who also operate media lab Moddr and are members of the Rotterdam-based artist collective Worm. Inspiration for the Web 2.0-suicide idea took root when Worm threw a 2008 New Year's Eve party themed "Web 2.0 Suicide Night." Recalls Langelaar: "The idea was that everybody...
...Married to Gail Huff, a news reporter on ABC's Boston affiliate WCVB. The couple met at a state-regulatory-board meeting, where they were attempting to recover money from modeling agents who hadn't paid them. They now have two daughters, Ayla and Arianna. Ayla is a former American Idol contestant...
Likewise, the economy of the quake zone has done well. Much of the region was agricultural, and farmers were able to get back to work fairly soon after the disaster. The massive rebuilding effort also provided direct investment and job opportunities. Several of the dislocated people I met in the temporary camps had family members working on reconstruction. Overall the quake region produced less than 1% of China's GDP, so it did little to slow the national growth engine. A chief concern was that rebuilding would contribute to inflation. That was largely forgotten over the past year...
...message to Afghan President Hamid Karzai that his government's plan to try to bring Taliban fighters over to its side with an incentive package of jobs and education programs - in addition to the surge of 30,000 additional U.S. soldiers being deployed to the country - will be met with fierce resistance by the militant group...