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...five-year filmmaking ban imposed by Chinese authorities on director Lou Ye is just the latest signal from Beijing that its tolerance for even minor signs of dissent has shrunk dramatically. According to state media reports, the director entered his latest movie, Summer Palace,at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival earlier this year without seeking approval from Chinese authorities. Although the film is a romance, it is set during the 1989 Tiananmen demonstrations, still very much a sensitive topic in Beijing...
...were too isolating. Its lighting and layout were designed for paper pushing, not laptop tapping. And--unbelievably--employers thought it took up too much space. A typical workstation in the 1970s measured 12 ft. by 12 ft., according to the American Society of Interior Designers. By 1995 it had shrunk to 10 ft. by 10 ft. Today's cubicles average 6 ft. by 8 ft., and space planners say they can cut an additional 21% without affecting productivity--or increasing the crime rate...
...this spring, it included a "boss button" that fans could use to instantly hide the game under a bogus spreadsheet.) More viewers are skipping TV ads using TiVo or other recorders, whereas webisodes are usually preceded by a brief, unskippable ad. Meanwhile, the ratings of even hit shows have shrunk over the years, and some of those former viewers are having affairs with their desktops...
...private education, he fears, will result in a system like Boston’s, where the majority of students who attend the public schools are minorities and where whites opt for private education. And this fear is being borne out, he says, by falling enrollment. The Cambridge system has shrunk by more than 1,000 students over the past three years, and the city’s schools have registered 11 consecutive years of enrollment decline...
Gingo said the most common charge was for excess trash left in rooms, but he noted that the amount of trash students have left behind “has shrunk significantly in the past five years.” He attributed the decreased amount of trash to greater awareness by students of the option to donate items to Habitat for Humanity and the efforts made by Yard and House personnel to remind students to dispose of or donate their unwanted items...