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Lang's epic poem of urban dystopia and class warfare set the standard for imagining the future-and how it might feel to be a part of it. Even now, in the age of CGI, his dark vision remains unsurpassed...
Bell, who has also worked for the Freshman Dean’s Office as a consultant to the Harvard Outing Club, the First-Year Urban Program, and the Prefect Program, will teach in UNH’s Outdoor Education Program. Bell was awarded a doctorate in Experiential Education by that program this weekend...
...56th edition since launching in Sweden 10 years ago. And 20 Minutes, set up by Norwegian media group Schibsted in 1999, is thumbed in 20 cities across France, Spain and Switzerland, racking up 5 million daily readers. The secret of the giveaways? They're free and easy. For young, urban, time-poor commuters, "It's the right product, at the right place and at the right time," says Sverre Munck, executive vice president of Schibsted and ceo of 20 Min Holding, which controls 20 Minutes in France and Spain. The rise in free papers is one more headache for traditional...
...through the same channels. Whoever wins, "We think the Evening Standard would have to go free pretty quickly" afterward, warned Deutsche Bank analyst Mark Braley in a January research note, though Associated swats away the suggestion. How do free papers make money? By aggregating enough eyeballs - generally young and urban - to lure advertisers. Many newspapers already rely more heavily on ad revenues than on circulation; ad sales represent almost two-thirds of total revenue among British titles, and 57% among those in Germany, according to the World Association of Newspapers (wan). But overall, advertisers are turning increasingly to other media...
...Avoid the sections of the river that run parallel to the noisy, traffic-clogged autobahn, and stick instead with havens like the flat, unpaved trail that skirts the northern edge of Dillingen, a factory town of roughly 18,000 in Germany's southwest. Despite the proximity of urban development (Munich is just a 45-minute drive away), the area is rich in wildlife. Look out for hungry ducks and other fowl dive-bombing a river teeming with fish, plus the occasional huntsman, struggling to get an overexcited dog to heel...