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...Movies, Take 8 If the return of the 3-D movie sounds like a rerun, that's because it is. By some counts, this is 3-D's eighth incarnation, and to date, it hasn't exactly revolutionized the industry. The first stereoscopic movies appeared in the U.S. before the last Great Depression, disappeared, then enjoyed a schmaltzy revival in the 1950s with such blockbusters as House of Wax (1953). They've cropped up intermittently ever since, typically attached to high-camp vehicles like Andy Warhol's Frankenstein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are 3-D Movies Ready for Their Closeup? | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

...couldn't tell what was real and what was animated--even knowing that the 9-ft.-tall blue, dappled dude couldn't possibly be real. The scenes were so startling and absorbing that the following morning, I had the peculiar sensation of wanting to return there, as if Pandora were real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are 3-D Movies Ready for Their Closeup? | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

...chief concern now is that as nonprofits look to cut their budgets, the first heads to roll may be the paid staff that oversees volunteers. Suddenly volunteers won't get the training they need, and their whole experience goes downhill from there. One in three volunteers does not return, according to federal data, and a bad experience is a factor in low volunteer retention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nonprofit Squeeze: Donations Down, Volunteers Up | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

...about sexuality and healthy relationships in a truly responsible and honest way. The program that helped Jewels provided her with information about birth control and encouraged her to try abstinence. But more important, it didn't end after two weeks, giving her and other students a safe space to return to for answers and advice. It is a model of what can happen when a community decides that it's crazy to spend more time teaching kids about decimals and fractions than about dating and sex. (Read "A Brief History Of: Abstinence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Bring An End to the War Over Sex Ed | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

...about a quarter-century later, University President Lawrence H. Summers decided it was time to evaluate the curriculum again. As specialized courses infiltrated the Core Curriculum, the program became more difficult to define. The Faculty then decided to return to the interdisciplinary study that the first Gen Ed program espoused...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kicking the Core to the Curb | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

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