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...remake the radio landscape, according to Pandora founder Tim Westergren who spoke at the Harvard Law School yesterday afternoon. Fans of the site range from your run- of-the-mill indie-loving college students to their Johnny Mathis-loving grandmas. Using a complex algorithm created by the Music Genome Project, a company Westergren helped found earlier, Pandora takes a listener’s favorite song or artist and recommends similar music based on a series of factors present in that song or artist’s catalogue. “[Pandora] replicates your best friend, but with almost perfect knowledge...
While PPPs are by no means a panacea—not every infrastructure project is suited for collaboration between the private and public sectors and there are other proposed solutions, like increased tolling, congestion pricing, encouraging reduction of demand, or a national infrastructure fund to be bankrolled by ending the Iraq War (the favored plan of Obama)—it has already proven to be a useful option in solving a giant problem that receives an absurdly low degree of attention commensurate with how many people are affected every day. Although both presidential nominees made reference to the infrastructure...
Scan and Deliver demonstrates a willingness on the part of HUL to utilize technology to the Harvard community. The Electronic Document Delivery (EDD) project website acknowledges that this innovation has been requested by library users for years. HUL has clearly listened; it has answered such requests comprehensively. Students will be able to request up to five books per day. The limit of 30 pages per work might cause some difficulties for students writing longer papers needing citations from multiple works, but additional materials can be requested the following day, and this realistically should not pose a major problem...
...into the early vision of Okamoto, who died 12 years ago. The struggle of its recovery and restoration over the past two decades is just as memorable. The painting was commissioned for the lobby of a luxury hotel in Mexico City in 1968, but financial problems halted the hotel project, and the finished mural was never displayed. Sometime during the 1960s, the mural went missing for decades...
...that more freely. When Myth of Tomorrow was commissioned, his secretary and life partner, Toshiko Okamoto, questioned his decision to represent such destructive imagery. "He told her, 'Because it is Mexico, this will work,' " says Akiomi Hirano, Toshiko's nephew and the producer of the Shibuya mural project for the Taro Okamoto Memorial Foundation. The Mexican hotel developer who commissioned the mural, Manuel Suarez, immediately took to the concept. "Taro wanted the Japanese to surmount the misery of the past rather than to retract inwardly - to blossom outward and look ahead. That was a radical concept...