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...were redesigning the entire magazine basically from scratch,” Blum said. Although it still addressed an audience of Harvard alumni, 02138 tried to focus more on issues of national interest, according to Blum. Previously, one of the magazine’s most popular stories was “The Harvard 100,” a list of Harvard’s most influential alumni. In contrast, the final issue—and the only one ever produced by Manhattan Media—contained an article on the sons of New York Times columnist Frank Rich, one of whom...
...frailties. Yeats longed to exchange the "fury and mire of human veins" for the "changeless metal" of the city's mechanical golden birds, whose beauty he felt to be permanent. There is historical evidence that the Byzantines, too, revered artifice while denigrating the human flesh: self-castration was a popular means of purification, and mutilation a prevalent form of punishment - one Emperor even wore a gold nose as a result...
...consumers start doing that kind of math, sectors like video games, DVDs and cable TV will be buffered from the shockwaves hitting other parts of the economy. So far this year video games are on a 20% or more growth trajectory, thanks in part to the introduction of three popular new platforms. The $50 billion industry hasn't been around long enough for other recessions to provide a guide as to how it will fare. (People got through the Great Depression just fine without Grand Theft Auto). But, as a bang-for-your-buck form of entertainment, gaming seems likely...
...consideration. ReadiStep is "a cynical marketing ploy," says Jesse Mermell, executive director of the National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FairTest), one of the College Board's most vocal opponents. "[It] is designed to lock eighth graders into the SAT series of exams before they can consider the increasingly popular alternatives...
...would seem also that travel by itself negates any possibility of eco-benefit, since flying burns so much carbon; a round-trip from New York to Nairobi, one popular ecotourism destination, creates nearly nine tons of carbon dioxide per person. Not to mention that the national parks, nature sanctuaries and remote wildlife reserves that draw most ecotravelers can be damaged by the foot traffic, to say nothing of the development that comes with tourism...