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...group of local leaders took Yu on a tour of their project. Chalk lines marking the lake's proposed shores ran through villages and along roads. Yu leapt out of the car to take photos of a pair of bulldozers that looked tiny against the vast swath of empty land where they were mounding up dirt. Bounding past the officials, he turned his camera on a bird's nest high up in a poplar next to the mineral spring supposed to supply the lake. "He even takes pictures of that," marveled one official when Yu was out of earshot. Driving...
...This statistical discrimination is the same instinct that leads women to clutch their purses at the glimpse of a dark young man down the block. And it?s understandable, to a degree. But I can only imagine the emotional-and yes, economic-toll it takes on this entire swath of young...
...then you will understand),” wrote Raymond J. Fisman, a visiting professor from the Columbia School of Business, in an e-mail. Hiscox said he is planning to undertake a major social labelling experiment with a supermarket chain in Italy, which caters to a broad swath of Italian society. While the study’s conclusion appears to contradict established thinking about consumer preferences and price, Eileen Kohl-Kaufman, executive director at Social Accountability International, which is undertaking the Italy study with Hiscox, said that the experiment’s conclusions were consistent with economic theories about consumer...
...surprised to learn that his new film sounds warnings straight out of liberal Hollywood's bible. Apocalypto, which Gibson loosely translates from the Greek as "a new beginning," was inspired in large part by his work with the Mirador Basin Project, an effort to preserve a large swath of the Guatemalan rain forest and its Maya ruins. Gibson and his rookie cowriter on Apocalypto, Farhad Safinia, were captivated by the ancient Maya, one of the hemisphere's first great civilizations, which reached its zenith about A.D. 600 in southern Mexico and northern Guatemala. The two began poring over Maya myths...
...plans for a women’s center speaks volumes about the proposed center’s biggest flaw: its narrow constituency. Though supporters of the center have noble intentions, all of its expected functions would be better fulfilled by general purpose space that serves a larger and broader swath of students...