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...willing to throw their respectability out the window in the pursuit of victory. Given the task of selling lemonade on the streets of New York, the female team wore extra tight shirts and included complimentary kisses on the cheek with every glass. When challenged to boost sales at Planet Hollywood, the women again fetched the street-walker wear out of their wardrobes and begged men on the street to buy them shots inside the restaurant. When presenting a new advertising approach for an airline, they photographed the jets as phallic symbols and used ad slogans alluding to the size...
OEB’s scope is no less than the tens of millions of species that inhabit this planet, and its questions concern no less than their origin, evolution and preservation. Pellegrino University Professor E.O. Wilson—one of the pioneers of biodiversity studies—advanced his now world-famous conservation studies here at Harvard. The OEB’s Herbaria houses 5.5 million plant specimens, filed in rooms of endless metal chests, including the largest, most important collection in the world of Chinese plant species; the Museum of Comparative Zoology has an impressive 21 million specimens...
...well, for they are central to pressing political issues (global climate change) and medical research (e.g., the tree extract documented at the Herbaria, Calophyllum, that may prove effective against AIDS). If Harvard allows its ability to play a role in such important questions about our place on this planet to tarnish, its reputation will surely, and quickly, do the same...
...start by moving away from its reliance on test audiences. Producers remain convinced that test screenings are the best way to gauge a film’s potential success and target audience. This is largely ineffective. Paramount Pictures must somehow have found the only ten people on the planet likely to enjoy Twisted, branded them a focus group and gave the movie a green light. The movie failed to recoup even half its budget. Most of the movies in this week’s top ten will fail to make their studios a profit until every last cent has been...
...tiny country perched in the Himalayas and required innovations in bookbinding (all done by hand) to put together. For a donation of just $10,000 or more, you too can own this Guinness record-breaking literary creation. All proceeds will go to a charity founded by Hawley called Friendly Planet, which builds and supports schools in Bhutan and Cambodia. Hawley, director of special projects at MIT and a faculty member at the famed Media Lab for 10 years, says he received about two dozen orders even before the book was launched. Guess there must a market for really...