Word: norms
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...cable-car-like network. (The PRT cars, unveiled at WFES, look as if they were stolen from the set of Star Trek.) More prosaically, the 2.3-sq.-mi. (6 sq km) walled community will have a solar-powered desalination plant, and conservation will keep water use 60% below the norm. The city's centerpiece will be the Masdar Institute, a graduate academy that will churn out new experts in clean energy. The hope is that a pool of educated workers--plus Masdar's favorable tax policies--will draw green companies to the desert, where they will be able to test...
...media, including sculpture, photography, oil paintings, silk screening, music, and video. The exhibit as a whole provides visitors with a new sort of intellectual engagement distinct from lectures and paper writing, asking students to think beyond their concentration or what they’ve come to regard as the norm at Harvard.Upon opening the heavy door to the Sert Gallery, viewers could stare into the face of Dorothy L. McLeod ’12, standing in her dorm room with a shadow on her face. The photograph entitled “The Skies are Different Here...
...Fifth Element. Rarely directing movies anymore, he's produced nearly 70 of them this decade, most set in Paris, many in English, including the Transporter series and a couple of Jet Li action adventures. Besson is Hollywood in another way: on a continent where subsidized moviemaking is the norm - something like 70% of the average European film's budget is ponied up by government agencies - Besson proudly takes no handouts. So I'm a big Besson fan, theoretically...
...President Barack Obama were to decide that "change" includes rewriting the United States constitution, he would probably find himself on the curb of Pennsylvania Avenue quicker than you can say Bill of Rights. But for left-wing Latin American Presidents, redoing national charters has become a norm. On Sunday, Bolivia became the most recent nation to be reborn. (See pictures of people around the world watching Obama's Inauguration...
...many years he worked 13-hour days. (According to the Swiss-based International Institute of Management Development, Taiwanese work some of the longest hours in the world, averaging nearly 44 hours a week.) These days, he leaves the office at 7 p.m. - not 10 p.m., which was his norm - every day to enjoy dinner and quality time with his family. "Our society was way too overproductive," he says. "It was too intense, so it all exploded at this time." Adds one of his colleagues: "As long as your finances are O.K., the extra hours are pretty cool...