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Street art is the catchall term for the accelerating phenomenon of surreptitious imagery inserted by mostly young artists into the municipal gumbo of overpasses, alleys and neglected street corners. It is popping up in cities everywhere--New York, Los Angeles, London, São Paulo. And although it has roots in the outburst of graffiti spray painting in the 1970s and '80s, it's a different order of business. In the brief annals of street-art history, graffiti ranks as something like cave painting--a first gesture, recognized for its primal intuition that public space is up for grabs...
...contrary to the hypothesis that less evolved species of hominids, such as homo erectus and Neanderthals, went extinct more than 50,000 years ago. “More unusual is the proposal that this hobbit species evolved from homo erectus through dwarfing,†said Lieberman. This phenomenon, he said, “occurs on islands when species are released from the pressures of predation but become constrained by limiting resources and small population sizes.†As a result, large animals become smaller and small animals become larger over time. Corroborating evidence of island dwarfing on Flores...
...position at HMC has attracted intense scrutiny in the past over issues like the compensation of Harvard’s fund managers—a phenomenon El-Erian said he is well aware...
...Making groups for people with ridiculous interests in common? (I Like Audrey Hepburn; My First Pet’s Name Was Yoyo; I Have Four Lamps in My Room But Only Two of Them Are Plugged In). Although we are left without a solid explanation as to why this phenomenon exists and what its true purpose is, I am quite certain that it has served several undeniable functions on the Harvard campus. For one, facebook.com is a mechanism through which stalking has been made, well, normal. When I was in junior high, this guy named Kevin developed a crush...
...think suicide bombers are ruthless fanatics. But they were very similar to you and me." That sense of recognition makes the film more grueling to watch - even for audiences who have grown inured to the near-nightly footage of suicide attacks in Baghdad. Here the dissection of the phenomenon is a lot more intimate and painful. The first 20 minutes of the film suggests a mundane domestic drama and West Bank life looks crushingly dull. Two buddies, auto mechanics in their early 20s, kill time by drinking tea on a hillside above Nablus, gossiping about girls and whining about their...