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...dark, rainy night last spring, a young woman brought an offering to the rural Oregon movie set of Twilight. "She gave her infant to a vampire," director Catherine Hardwicke marvels. Actually, the Twilighter - as the mostly female devotees of Stephenie Meyer's vampire romances call themselves - had driven hours to get pictures of her baby with the cast. Even before Twilight hits theaters Nov. 21, the series' readers have exhibited enough excitement - if not hysteria - to persuade the studio, Summit Entertainment, to get screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg cracking on adaptations of the next two books. (Read TIME's 10 Questions with...
...administration of spatial policy in the United States is already clumsily distributed across multiple federal agencies. We have a Department of Housing and Urban Development despite the fact that “housing” is not a concern unique to urban areas. Rural spaces are alternately administered by programs of the Department of the Interior, such as the Bureau of Land Management, and by those of the Department of Agriculture, such as the Forest Service. A whole mishmash of special agencies—not to mention state and local programs—fill the interstices...
...George introduces the reader to a fascinating and enlightening universe. In India, Bindeshwar Pathak, an ordinary idealist, invents a basic and cheap latrine, and proves that even the most destitute Indians will pay for a clean toilet. In China, George meets Wang Ming Ying, a tiny woman from the rural province of Shaanxi who promotes the use of biogas - energy created from the fermentation of human waste - which can be used for electricity and cooking fires, and helps slow the deforestation ravaging her country. In Japan, George recounts the history of Toto, maker of the world's most advanced toilets...
...shopping takes place only in cities is outmoded, thanks to the Internet. And so when Lise Strathdee?who grew up in Italy and New Zealand and then worked in Milan with Romeo Gigli for many years before establishing her own design studio in London?stopped off at a tiny, rural community in New Zealand in search of a lunchtime snack during a vacation, she knew she'd found the perfect place to set up shop. Outpost Hokianga outposthokianga.com is a hip concept store that mixes fashion, books, art and fine food, and happens to be located in Rawene, a village...
...This is misplaced guilt. A volunteer armed with a pocket projector in rural Africa could project an educational video onto the wall of a house. OLEDs will help people cut their power consumption and reduce global greenhouse gas emissions. Even those who buy gadgets for their own enjoyment are helping to fund optics research and encourage technical experimentation. Improving our mastery of optics will improve our ability to communicate and light the path to the future we’ve all been waiting...