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Those fears were abundantly evident in a recent Conference Board report showing that consumer confidence took an unexpected dip, sliding 11 points in February, and the present-situation index, which measures consumers' opinions on current economic conditions, plunged to its lowest level in 27 years. "People are scared," says Herzberg. (See the worst business deals...
...uphill battle for the fickle attentions of the public. Sung H. Kang, Boaz Pokroy, and Joanna Aizenberg of the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences turned to visual art. They collectively won the photography division of the International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge, which awards images that present complicated research in a layman-friendly way—images that bring the science to the people...
...there’s also an artistic significance to the photo’s title. For the researchers, the image brought to mind humanity’s attempts to work together and combat the looming environmental crisis. Against a background of darkness, “the multiple fingers metaphorically present our efforts—mine, yours, and everybody else’s—holding the planet together,” Aizenberg said...
...thought that the second agenda item would come up soon,” Mooney jokingly told the faculty present, who had been seated for nearly two hours...
After some adjustments, the proposal was approved in a unanimous vote by the five members present...