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...Dutch, French and U.S. embassies, global corporations like Nestl? and environmental groups like the Ghana Wildlife Society. Last year around 1,000 attended, including Kofi Agbogah, a scientist from Ghana's Water Research Institute: "The great thing about the festival was that people saw [the movies] on the screen and immediately understood the politics and complexity of the issues. It was really worthwhile?a lot of people said so?even people who are not environmentalists." That's because the films, although addressing issues as apparently lacking in screen appeal as recycling and corporate ethics, are often gripping dramas. Movies slated...
Generation M has a lot to teach parents and teachers about what new technology can do. But it's up to grownups to show them what it can't do, and that there's life beyond the screen...
...bigger worry with those sites isn't so much the privacy or security issues, though those are real enough. It's the sheer amount of screen-sucking time they consume in lives that are already overscheduled. Being a teenager is one enormous exercise in time management. Watching my kids try to juggle school, homework, sports, music lessons and sleep, I sometimes think my life is easier than theirs. That's partly because I have some tools they lack, but it's also because I think I know an abyss when I see one. Facebook is one giant time vortex...
...kinds of office chairs, from executive models in black leather and chrome to squat cloth-clad cubicle standards. Zhu won his first export contract in 2004. He also attended the Cologne Furniture Fair in Germany and sent 80% of his $3 million output to 20 countries. Through a screen of plastic bamboo along his office window, he points out the new factory he's building next door. He shows off a United Arab Emirates health-insurance card, which grants him medical treatment in Dubai, where he just opened his first foreign shop. "By Anji's standards, we have a small...
...contest’s first special-teams situation. After Boe turned aside a number of chances directly in front of her, New Hampshire’s Jennifer Hicthcock finally found a hole in the Crimson netminder’s defense when she fired a puck through a screen and between Boe’s pads. Martine Garland and Sadie Wright-Ward assisted on the goal. Garland notched her own tally just three minutes later on a similar play. She shot from just inside the blue line in the middle of the ice and beat Boe at the upper left side...