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...benefit from its exposure at last year's Comic-Con convention, and from Warner Bros.' posting of 300 stills from the movie on MySpace. The $70 million opening means that we will see another spate of stories on the power of the Web to launch movies - stories we've been reading since 1999, when The Blair Witch Project became a surprise smash, but whose predictions of seismic changes in movie marketing have been realized only fitfully...
Friday’s attack marks the latest in a spate of robberies and attempted robberies that have plagued Harvard Square in recent months...
Virginia legislators unanimously passed a bill prohibiting the state’s public universities from punishing or expelling students who attempt to commit suicide or seek treatment for suicidal tendencies. The legislation, approved on Friday, comes in the wake of a spate of suicides at Virginia universities. And it follows several high-profile cases, including one at MIT in 2000, in which families of college students who were suspected of committing suicide sued universities officials for failing to provide adequate mental health care. “It is the only bill of its type in the country...
...hopes the spate of publicity generated overseas for Shanghai's Art Deco tradition might serve to boost his conservationist cause. But getting Shanghai itself to take notice is a slow process. A delegation of Shanghainese officials-representing government, urban planning, preservation and business development-attended the Miami event. "I invited them all to see the same exhibition in Shanghai, and they never came," says Erh. "It's a joke. I spent $3,750 of my own money to ship the pictures to Miami, when they could have seen them right here in Shanghai...
...trial to the Kansas Board of Education, the histories of science and religion are intertwined in what has long been an antagonistic relationship. But the stakes today are as high as ever—are religion and science reconcilable, or are they fundamentally at odds? Despite a recent spate of strongly-worded books on both sides of the issue aimed at the public sphere, in the Academy at least, science and religion have, for the most part, reached an uneasy truce—by segregating themselves, utterly and totally. But a recent article in The New York Times about...