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...have to pay).Similarly, JetBlue campus rep Jason B. McCoy ’08 reports a positive response.“Most people are really receptive to chips,” McCoy says, referencing the potato chips he hands out in collaboration with JetBlue’s partnership with Terra Chips, the official snack provider of the airline.“Even though not everyone gives a positive response,” he adds, “it’s a good environment to work in because we’re all students. So, we understand the situation?...
...discover a new city which I don't know and there are so many with potential, like Hangzhou where you have the lake, but also a very dynamic city and where we have several shops. Or for one that is culturally very interesting, there is Xi'an and the terra-cotta soldiers...
...Shiva, speculates on Neolithic burial rites and toys with the idea that "human consciousness is changed by the experience of living above clay, rather than above chalk." The book never quite recovers from these tributary explorations, but like the Thames, Ackroyd flows on. Once he's on the terra firma of London's recorded history - the troves of which he is a voracious plunderer - he is in full flood. The fancy word for his approach is psychogeography, a philosophical attempt to reimagine the life of cities that was dreamed up by France's Situationists in the 1950s and dusted...
...believe in the importance of putting authentic artifacts on display," says Bartsch. "They resonate with viewers in a different way." He adds that "museums all around the world ship fragile, irreplaceable, priceless objects every day" - far more delicate items like the Dead Sea Scrolls and China's terra-cotta soldiers have been carted to and fro repeatedly without harm. Ian Tattersall, with New York City's American Museum of Natural History, agrees that the Houston exhibit has value. "You can make the same intellectual point with replicas, but I don't think you can make the same emotional point," says...
...than halved - or already fallen: last year, retail giant Tower Record sclosed its stores and in June the U.K. music chain Fopp shut up shop. Meanwhile, record labels are looking for solutions in mergers and takeovers - any day now, British firm EMI could be bought out by investment group Terra Firma. Says McNicholas: "With the pace of change, you just have to be very quick on your feet and rework your business model every six months - that's the challenge...