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...just a question of how I would cobble the various disciplines together. 8. FM: “Aftertaste,” your senior thesis, has been screened at film festivals around the world. What inspired you to write a documentary about post-Apartheid farming in South Africa? CD: Near Cape Town there are a lot of wine farms. During my senior year there were a lot of farmers starting “empowerment projects.” Basically this meant that for the first time the workers could own parts of the vineyard and make profits from their wine being...

Author: By Kirsten E.M. Slungaard, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Ceridwen Dovey | 9/24/2008 | See Source »

...Friends might suggest strolling along the Charles to get to cafés near MIT or walking up Mass. Ave to eat at restaurants in Porter Square, but I was always the one who’d recommend the MBTA...

Author: By Charles J. Wells, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Commuter in Paris | 9/24/2008 | See Source »

...that I was back in the Third World. My countrymen were going to think that this was the worst thing that had ever happened, the end of civilization. In the Third World, this sort of thing happened every day: earthquakes, famines, plagues ... All those street vendors who worked near the World Trade Center, from all those different countries, selling falafel and schwarma. When they heard the planes and watched the towers they must have thought the same thing as I did: that they'd come home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Forever War | 9/23/2008 | See Source »

Clearly, Jobs, who left Apple in a power struggle, then returned to resurrect it from a near bankrupt state, learned something from his missteps. The iPhone is more open than Apple's computers. Apple relies almost exclusively on third parties to create software for the iPhone, and even sells it to developers in its App Store. That's why iPhone applications look to be a $1 billion business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Google vs. iPhone: Is Steve Jobs Reliving Past Mistakes? | 9/23/2008 | See Source »

...caused severe problems for Kiribati, including increasing high tides, harsher wave action, and coral breaching. Coupled with the scarce resources, a recent year-long drought, and exorbitant fuel and food prices that have crippled an already unstable economy, the newest crises promise to make the atolls uninhabitable in the near future...

Author: By Natasha S. Whitney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kiribati Leader Cites Toll of Climate Change | 9/23/2008 | See Source »

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