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...sense of wonder to Iceland's volcanic landscape. Experts help to transform snapshot-happy tourists into travel photographers. They advise on lenses, composition, framing, lighting and photographic content. "It's about putting the photos in the context of the landscape and the people," says Peter Noble, chairman of the Royal Photographic Society (RPS) Travel Group, who is also a guide with specialist agency Light & Land. The RPS recommends that you sign up with a well-known photographer and travel with a group no larger than 15; prices will vary according to group size and quality of accommodation. You can search...
Officials do not know. The daily newspaper may have merited attack simply because its primary owner is a prominent member of the Saudi royal family, whose intimate ties to the U.S. have provoked the wrath of dissident Muslim extremists. Prince Khaled bin Sultan is a nephew of King Fahd's, a son of the current Defense Minister and brother of the kingdom's present ambassador to Washington. Moreover, Khaled was the senior commander of Arab forces during the 1991 Gulf War. It was during this conflict that the kingdom opened its borders to soldiers of the U.S.-led coalition...
...thing to serve.” While Crowe may not be the most prolific modern director, his early allegiance to music in his films has distinguished him from his counterparts; the style has recently been co-opted by newer auteurs like Wes Anderson in “The Royal Tenenbaums.” A veteran Rolling Stone contributor since age fifteen, and married to one of the rock divas of the ’70s (Nancy Wilson of Heart), Crowe inundates “Elizabethtown” with “little tips of the hats to artists?...
...Harvard faculty. The award, officially called the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, honors Schilling “for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis,” according to a press release from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which gives the award. Famous for applying game-theory analysis to the study of strategic interaction, especially during the Cold War era as the U.S. was on the brink of nuclear warfare with the Soviet Union, Schelling is for the insightful applications in his work...
...glimmer of the Nobel Prize has once again dawned on Harvard, almost a decade after a Harvard professor last received the honor—Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics Roy J. Glauber ’45-’46 received the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced yesterday...