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Student dancers’ concerns about insufficient rehearsal space may be partially due to the recent rapid growth in their sheer numbers. Bergmann says that when the OFA last investigated dance participation at Harvard in fall of 2002, they estimated participation in Harvard’s 23 student dance groups and various open classes to be 700 undergraduates, an astonishing 10 percent of the undergraduate population. She estimates that an up-to-date count would reveal an even larger number. In the past five years, enrollment in the OFA’s dance classes alone has doubled to approximately...
...children are vastly more comfortable with simulations than with narratives? What happens when a significant portion of a generation’s experiences of pleasure derive from what is essentially the subconscious insinuation of algorithms? What happens when an entire generation becomes used to second-by-second gratification, the rapid thrills of an unfolding simulation that cannot be rivaled by, for instance, reading...
...society and throughout the world, and inevitably (barring a resurgent neo-Luddite movement) within 30 years we will all be playing video games. There is no evidence that this hunger within us will ever die, even as our bodies age. And who would want it to? Nothing beats the rapid-fire thrill of a first person shooter, or the evocations and exhilarations of a sports game, or the alternating states of calm cerebral alertness and frantic applied engagement that characterizes more complicated games like Civilization, Age of Empires, or Starcraft/Warcraft...
...alone (it is a disease of aloneness) and dressed in loose, comfortable clothing. In a catatonic state, I would enter a grocery store to buy the requisite comfort foods, starting with ice cream and moving to breads and pastries--just this one last time. My breathing would become rapid (as in sex) and shallow (as in fear). Before eating, I would drink milk, because if that went into me first, it would help bring up all the rest later. The eating itself was exciting and my heart would pound. But once the food had been devoured, I would be overcome...
...Singapore on March 29, preparing to head home after three months helping in the reconstruction of Indonesia's earthquake- and tsunami-ravaged Aceh province. That night, a second earthquake struck Nias, Banyak and Simeulue islands, off the coast of Sumatra. Within hours, the Kanimbla - equipped for the rapid transport of soldiers, medics and heavy machinery - was heading back to the area. Medical teams raced for its Sea King helicopters, which began scouring Nias for badly injured survivors and ferrying them to the ship's hospital for treatment. On the afternoon of Apr. 2, one of those helicopters crashed into...