Word: paola
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...Dissonant though it may be, on June 26, the environmental committee of Spain's lower house of parliament approved a resolution supporting the Great Ape Project, an organization and manifesto founded by ethicists Peter Singer and Paola Cavalieri, which argues that three essential human rights - life, liberty and freedom from physical and psychological torture - should be extended to our closest hominid relatives. Joan Herrera, congressman for the Catalan Green Initiative party, justified the measure before parliament, saying that the primates "are capable of recognizing themselves, and have cognitive capabilities...
Design and the Elastic Mind (D.A.P.) MOMA curator of architecture and design Paola Antonelli looks at how globalization and technology are transforming the creative process in design...
...Visionaries: PAOLA ANTONELLI ANDRE BALAZS YVES BEHAR DOMENICO DE SOLE ROB FORBES TOM FORD NORMAN FOSTER NICOLAS GHESQUIERE NICOLAS G. HAYEK NICK HAYEK JR. JAIME HAYON JOHN MACKEY FREDERIC MALLE JASPER MORRISON NAU COLLECTIVE MARK PARKER ANNE-SOPHIE PIC MIUCCIA PRADA PHILIPPE STARCK MARGARETA VAN DEN BOSCH ANDREW WEIL EVA ZEISEL
...speakers whose famously separate communities have different economic profiles, tastes, influences and habits. Talk of devolution is rife, and last December French state broadcaster RTBF interrupted its regular programming to announce that Flanders had declared independence. Viewers were shocked by the grainy footage of King Albert II and Queen Paola heading for the airport to flee the country. The program was an elaborate hoax, but the outrage it provoked appeared to underline the fragility of the country...
...fault. She probably wanted to cover the material in the assigned text, Mankiw’s Macroeconomics. The book is clear, but not geared for stimulating lectures. Most topics quickly descend into explaining the minutiae of graphs that artificially prove a theory. Little will probably change as Paola Giuliano of the International Monetary Fund takes over the course this year...