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Situated in Louvain-La-Neuve, a new town some 20 miles (32 km) southeast of Brussels, the Hergé Museum is a stunning piece of architecture. Designed by Pritzker Prize winner Christian de Portzamparc, its sleek concrete, steel and glass form makes it look like a stranded ocean liner, an image that deliberately echoes Tintin's many maritime exploits. Built at a cost of $20 million, and financed by Hergé's second wife Fanny, the museum reflects Hergé's huge corpus of work, much of which has, until now, been languishing largely unseen in studios and bank vaults...
...What students equated with secretive decision-making over the last year culminated in the town-hall meetings that followed the announcement of sweeping Faculty of Arts of Sciences budget cuts last month...
...school year, the financial picture still looked rosy for Harvard students. Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds’ recent funding initiative for undergraduates was welcomed by the student body, and hints of budget cuts were still far off on the horizon. Economists noted that college towns and campuses are often the most insulated areas during tough economic climates, but it did not take long for the Wall Street meltdown to make its presence felt at Harvard. In early December, President Drew G. Faust wrote an email to the Harvard community hinting at the University’s financial...
...proven to be a valuable tool. "I just came from a courthouse where they practically want you to undress to be approved for official gender reassignment," he said. "But on Facebook, I could do it myself and under my own terms. I made that announcement in my own town square." Andy says that the name change sparked questions from various friends, but he expected to have those conversations and was happy to take care of it all at once...
...Army Air Force's strategic campaigns in World War II, unaffectionately known to its crews as "the flying shithouse." The plant took a while to get going. There was a shortage of local labor, which meant that workers had to be imported from Appalachia (Ypsilanti, a local town, became known as "Ypsitucky"). Mosquitoes plagued the site until Henry Ford imported a bug-eating fish that Mussolini had found useful in draining the Pontine marshes in Italy. By 1944, Willow Run was turning out a B-24 every hour (it later got the time down to 55 minutes), and all told...