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Although most students were off campus for winter vacation when the tidal wave struck, they swarmed e-mail lists voicing their concern and planning relief efforts that will now go into full swing as students return to Cambridge...
...Amount of money former Playboy centerfold Anna Nicole Smith will get from her husband's estate, after a California court last week struck down an earlier ruling awarding her $88.5 million...
...idea struck in 1977 when, as a graduate student at M.I.T., Hoffman was introduced to chaos theory. A chaotic system like weather appears to behave randomly but is actually governed by rules. It is also influenced by seemingly trivial tweaks to the system--hence the old romantic notion that a flap of a butterfly's wings in the rain forest of Brazil might give rise to a storm off the coast of Iceland. Perhaps, thought Hoffman, chaos and sensitivity, which make weather so difficult to predict, could be harnessed to purposely change...
...enlightenment struck again. I saw - heard, rather - the West End show Bombay Dreams. Like Chess, it had music by a composer who had written (and sometimes performed) dozens of pop hits. Indeed, A.R. Rahman is not just India's most prominent movie songwriter - in a land of a billion people where movie music truly is popular music - but, by some computations, the best-selling recording artist in history. His scores have sold more albums than Elvis or the Beatles or all the Jacksons: perhaps 150 million, maybe more...
Chanel's Karl Lagerfeld followed fellow designer Isaac Mizrahi down-market and struck gold. His H&M line boosted sales at the trendy mass clothier...