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Your headline asked, "Can This Man Save the Movies? (Again?)," and I would say no. Not that Lucas isn't capable of doing almost anything with the art form, but very few people in a theater care about the process that was used to shoot the movie they're watching. They just want a good story. It is important for the talented people behind the camera to come up with better techniques, but I would suggest that they start a major hunt for some good writers who have new ideas...
...policy. As policy director of George W. Bush's 2000 campaign and his first deputy chief of staff for policy, Bolten is steeped in the current system. In meetings, he often whips out a giant calculator to show the price when, as an aide put it, "someone wants to save a continent from malaria." He's self-assured enough that he has been known to tell underlings he didn't need to accompany them to meetings with the President. "He would stay out of meetings in the Oval if he thought the President would benefit more from a smaller discussion...
...Abdul Rahman, who, under Afghanistan's Shari'a law, had faced the death penalty for converting to Christianity. Two days later, Rahman was spirited to Italy, which granted him asylum. On his arrival, he gave a brief TV interview, thanking the Italian government and Pope Benedict XVI for helping save his life and win his release. But alive doesn't mean totally free. Afghan clerics have denounced Italy and continue to call for Rahman's death, so he will stay under tight police protection in an undisclosed location for the foreseeable future. An Interior Ministry official in Rome tells TIME...
...Replace incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescents. They?re more expensive, but they last up to 13 times as long and each one saves about half a ton of CO2 over its lifetime. If you exchanged the five most frequently used bulbs in your house for compact fluorescents, you would save about 700 lbs. of CO2 (and $90 in energy costs) a year. If every U.S. household swapped three 75-watt regular bulbs that stay on about six hours a day for three 20-watt compact fluorescents, that would save more than 60 trillion lbs. of CO2 per year?equivalent...
...school’s policy on student contributions is now set to change. According to Harvard’s current student handbook, which still reflects the 2004 policy, the financial aid committee “expects that students will save approximately $2,000 from their summer job to be contributed toward the educational expenses of the following year.” Outside scholarships could not be used to replace summer income. But according to a statement from Harvard officials today, students will now be able to use outside scholarships “to eliminate their summer savings obligations...