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...Ulysses soon co-exist with millions of pictures of sulky teenagers? Maybe the eventual triumph of MySpace was inevitable. Publishing houses have only held out thus far because reading is on some level a tactile experience: with e-texts, the words become essential and the physicality of the object disappears. The literature can be put online, but not the book. And book buyers want the book. This has helped preserve the book even while CDs became MP3s and VHS became DVDs. New technology has not transformed the form of the media, but rather how people acquire it. In the last...
More seriously, I wonder if Harvard students wouldn’t like to volunteer as tutors in our community and meet our kids. Would the staff of the proposed Science Complex really object if our children share the daycare center with theirs? And when their staff use the fitness center, would it be so bad if the person at the next machine was an Allston resident? Can’t we all take the shuttle together to Harvard Square...
Last week, for the sake of one word, “The Higher Power of Lucky”—this year’s Newbery Medal-winning children’s book—was banned in many school libraries across the country. Apparently, librarians object because the author employs a word on the first page considered inappropriate for its young audience: “scrotum.” According to the New York Times, the book reads, “Scrotum sounded to Lucky like something green that comes up when you have the flu and cough...
Adams and Sprenger share an intuitive ability to foresee how a garment or object will best play for the store. They know their customers?or "guests," as they quaintly refer to them?better than anyone. The designers they partner with, themselves unassailable control freaks and not always familiar with the vagaries of large-scale production, are inclined to see their point. "It's like a whole new world to figure out," admits McCollough. "Target interested me because they are more mass market than my company," says Sarafpour. Exposure in 1,494 stores, as well as royalties, doesn't hurt either...
...DEFINE AN "ANTIQUE OF THE FUTURE"? It's a mass-produced but highly defined object that is being made today that I believe?once it is no longer in production?will go up in value because it represents the best of design in its time...