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...from the Tiffany Archives. The show will examine how etiquette trends, new materials and the somewhat recent need for disposable flatware have influenced the design of eating utensils and serving tools. "The culture of dining is an integral part of social history," says Cooper-Hewitt director Paul Warwick Thompson. "'Feeding Desire' will demonstrate how sharing food can be an expression of love and power, duty and honor, knowledge and taste...
...think about a Wal-Mart Bank with ATMs, branches and tellers. Jane Thompson, who would be chairman of Wal-Mart Bank, says the new bank would have a "very narrow role." Currently, every time a customer swipes a credit or debit card, Wal-Mart pays a fee to a bank for watching over the money for those few seconds as it moves between the customer's account and Wal-Mart's. By using its own bank, the company will save fractions of a penny on each transaction, yielding $5 million to $10 million a year, which it says...
Video games rated “M” for mature audiences contain sexual content, drug references, and strong language not labeled on the box, according to a recent study by Kimberly M. Thompson, an associate professor of risk analysis and decision science at the Harvard School of Public Health. Thompson has previously completed studies analyzing the content of video games rated “E” for everyone and “T” for teen. Those studies found much higher levels of violence than advertised on the video game box. She has also founded KidsRisk...
...into Iraq last spring. But if that's the bargain required to find a way out, there are even fewer who wouldn't take it. --Reported by Michael Ware and Phil Zabriskie/Baghdad, Scott Macleod/Cairo, Helen Gibson/London and Perry Bacon Jr., Timothy J. Burger, Massimo Calabresi, Matthew Cooper and Mark Thompson/ Washington
...well-designed set by Courtney E. Thompson ’09, if not quite as grand as the emotional and musical ambitions of the operetta, is limited only by the constraints of the Agassiz. Lighting designer Christen L. McDuffee ’08 made great choices with the multi-tiered set, and the Ravenmaster (Nick Bentley) sported a funny-looking but well-made raven puppet, the symbolism of which I have yet to figure out (as do the two noisy old people who sat next...