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From a distance, it looks like an ordinary movie poster. Pasted to a bus shelter wall along Madrid's central Calle Segovia, it depicts a thin child looking upward toward credits printed in that look-at-me font that film-publicity posters seemingly always use. It's only when you get close enough to read the title credits that you realize something is amiss. "Ask Al Gore," one passerby queried his companion. "That's the name of a movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hunger Activists Want Al Gore to Make Another Movie | 2/13/2009 | See Source »

...year, Oct. 1, so Class of ’06 students who gained OPT status immediately after graduation would be left without a visa from June 2007 until October.Even worse for foreign students, summer jobs held during college count toward the 12-month OPT allowance. For example, Elisa M. Segovia ’06 of El Salvador worked during the summer before her senior year—cutting down the number of months she could work under the OPT program after graduation.“I called my company and told them my situation, and my company was pretty great...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Diploma in Hand, But Visa in Limbo | 10/5/2006 | See Source »

...house master and senior tutor in Mather House. “As soon as the grades were in, we did get a letter for the registrar,” Rana said.But, she said, by that point it was too late.Graduating seniors Qicheng Ma, Sabrina E. De Abreu, Elisa M. Segovia, and Yue Zhou described similar experiences.Zhou says she hoped to hear from Citigroup today about whether she will still have a job with them after graduation.Students said they are unsure whether there is any action they or Harvard can take to remedy the problem.“I talked...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Visas Dry Up For Intl. Seniors | 6/6/2006 | See Source »

...Spain, the agricultural town of Cuéllar, in the central province of Segovia, generates hot water and heating for 250 homes by burning pine bark and other wood residuals. The system, using no fossil fuel and similar to BedZED's wood-burning plant, also heats an indoor swimming pool, a cultural center and a school. Spain now produces 7% of the world's solar photovoltaic energy, and solar sources are "growing at a 50% clip per year," says Javier García Breva, director of the Institute for Energy Diversification and Savings, the government body responsible for promoting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Power to the People | 5/1/2005 | See Source »

...Segovia and Orezzoli visited dance halls and clubs all over Argentina to find the best tango teams. Five of the seven couples chosen are married. "In the American tango, everyone does it the same way," says Choreographer Copes, 54, who also dances in the show. "But in Argentina, everyone feels different. It's like love between a couple: some are sweet, some sensuous, some fighting." He has been dancing with his own partner, Mara Nieves, 48, for 32 years, during nine of which they were husband and wife. Even after their divorce, they-continued working together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Love Those Crazy Steps | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

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