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...name change—the concentration will go from “Astronomy and Astrophysics” to “Astrophysics”—Moran said that it more accurately characterized what students and faculty are doing.“Astronomy as practiced in the modern era is astrophysics,” Charbonneau said. Charbonneau, who e-mailed current Astronomy and Astrophysics students just before the March spring break to announce the changes, was not the only one excited about the new concentration. “I think people are going to love...
...purposes. "It was mandatory for each pharmacy to have 25 leeches in stock at a time," says Nikonov, who has worked at the Center for 19 years. He is very proud that the rest of the world is now catching up to Russia. (Check out the story of a modern-day exorcist...
MySpace's story is an almost stereotypical coming-of-age tale for Internet start-ups, a modern-day bildungsroman of social networking. The idea was birthed in the seedy underworld of the Internet by the same folks who brought you such innovations as spam, the pop-up ad and spyware. The site itself was a rip-off, a hastily thrown-together clone of its predecessor Friendster. Both sites missed the heyday of the Web bubble, but there's something to be said for persistence and a good idea, and MySpace quickly grew far beyond anyone's expectations. (See TIME...
Angwin, a technology writer at the Wall Street Journal, is equally adept at breaking down both the technological and the business sides of MySpace's development. It's a richly detailed portrait of the growth of a modern media company, complete with all the growing pains, feuds and business machinations that accompany it. Like a MySpace user, though, sometimes Angwin has a tendency to overshare - at one point, the pornography habits of MySpace co-founder Tom Anderson are discussed...
...doing fantastic box-office business, thanks to insanely unserious movies like Paul Blart: Mall Cop and Madea Goes to Jail. The Colbert Report has been a special haven of sanity amid the sky-is-falling hysteria. And again, history is encouraging in this regard: Saturday Night Live and modern comedy were born during the malaise-y '70s, just as wit and humor - the New Yorker, the Marx Brothers, screwball comedy - flourished in the '30s. I'm even hopeful that the meltdown and resulting reset might jar the culture in deeper ways. For three decades, too much of art and design...