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...Golden Globes and the Oscars, if they follow the critics' lead, will have V.D.D. - viewer deficit disorder. Large numbers of people won't watch shows paying tribute to movies they haven't seen. In the old Golden Age days, most contenders for the top Oscars were popular movies that had a little art. Now they're art films that have a little, very little, popularity. The serious movies Hollywood gives awards to in January and February are precisely the kind it avoids making for most of the year. The Oscars are largely an affirmative action program, where the industry scratches...
...raised 45,000 dollars for the creation of the Lowell wall and organized its construction during the summer of 2006, said he wanted to create a social scene at Harvard that doesn’t revolve around drinking. According to Rinaudo, the climbing wall has been very popular among students even before this event. “The goal is to build community, so when I leave, there are still motivated people to take over,” said Rinaudo, who is also an officer of the Harvard Mountaineering Club. The wall is regularly open seven days a week from...
...time study abroad placements. Most students who go abroad during the semester do so through programs at other schools. Catherine H. Winnie, director of the Office of International Programs, said she sees no indication that the dollar’s fall has precipitated a drop in enrollment. The most popular destinations for Harvard students studying abroad in 2006-2007 were Italy, Spain, England, and France—a trend Winnie said was likely to continue. Despite increases in the price of some schools’ programs, many students said their time abroad was still less expensive than a semester...
...person a day—much more than the 2.5 liters needed. Groundwater wells contaminated with bacteria from raw sewage, pesticides, and iron could be also be purified using more advanced technology. But these measures won’t come cheap or easy. Environmental initiatives have never been popular with either the Indian government or its taxpaying citizens, and what millions have been spent seem to have accomplished relatively little. Even with the growing influx of cash from emigrants in the West, the cost and scale of the effort will be formidable. It is imperative that India take immediate action...
...Roth and Powderly must be content with loaning and donating L.A.S.E.R. Tag equipment, and they are finding a particularly enthusiastic reception in Asia. "Technology has a very different meaning in China, in Korea," says Marc Schiller of popular street-art website Wooster Collective. Schiller sees L.A.S.E.R. Tag as standing in the tradition of such pioneering new-media artists as the late Korean-born Nam June Paik. "[In Asia] it's not thought of as incompatible or separate from art," he says...