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...Fair enough, but, with its three halls seating 4,000 people, including some 1,700 in the main auditorium, the Palau is the crown jewel. Calatrava himself described the 40,000-sq-m building as the culmination of 14 years' work. "This project is the most intense, the one I've devoted most time to," he said. "It represents a correlation between spectator, musician and artist." With its ample rehearsal and performance spaces, as well as its fine acoustics (Calatrava brought in his own team to ensure their quality), the Palau holds obvious appeal for any musical performer...
...Calatrava's passion for the project is particularly notable because opera is, in many places, a dying art. Long-established houses like Milan's La Scala, Berlin's Deutsche Oper and even New York City's Met struggle to fill seats. The reasons for opera's slow decline are legion. Classical music critic and consultant Greg Sandow points to governments' dwindling support of the arts, a paucity of singers with the ability to perform the standard repertoire, and above all, audiences that look elsewhere for entertainment...
...Boston-area public service group is launching a new mentoring initiative aimed at helping adolescents at risk for diabetes develop healthy lifestyles. Project HEALTH (Helping Empower, Advocate & Lead Through Health), in collaboration with the endocrinology department of Boston Medical Center (BMC), is seeking to educate children diagnosed as pre-diabetics about health issues and motivate them to change their lifestyles in order to prevent the onset of type-2 diabetes. The new program, called STRENGTH and set to launch this semester, will target children—especially those from low-income families—with chronic medical conditions such...
Jeffrey K. Ma ’07, who is developing algorithms to automate the hovering process, believes that an exciting aspect of the project is their ability to program the devices with senses not normally found in nature. Ma thinks it will be possible to make these robots even more sensitive than their organic counterparts...
Wood says that most aspects of the MAVs are functioning well independently, the next step in the project is to integrate the hovering processes, decision-making procedures, and external power...