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...survival of the industry, because, in a country whose average income is less than $1 per day, there simply isn’t the money for big-budget films.Associate producer Aimee Corrigan explained that the industry’s lack of polish is the result of a practical application vacuum in Nigerian film education. “Some universities have theory only, but this is really the problem, is a lack of training,” she said.But that’s part of what makes the people in “This Is Nollywood” so inspiring. Sacchi...
...become the gadget guy for top New York City chefs, as well as a teacher at the French Culinary Institute. In his Manhattan classroom, he trolls the Web for old medical equipment that he can rig into appliances chefs don't even know they need yet: rotary evaporators, vacuum pumps, thermal circulators. His cooking shelves look like a pharmacy, filled with bottles of powder: guar gum, calcium lactate, sodium alginate. Until recently, he carried 20 ft. (6 m) of rope with him at all times, just in case he needed to MacGyver something...
...good measure of international payback here. For source nations, the idea of cultural property is a way to assert their sovereignty against those great powers that once picked through their treasures. It's also a defense against the suction of the present-day free market, which could easily vacuum up whatever the colonial powers haven't carted away. Zahi Hawass is the very vocal head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities. "While I believe that Egyptian monuments are the shared heritage of mankind," he told TIME by e-mail, "I also believe that as a sovereign state...
...Into the power vacuum stepped administrators who viewed HMI’s forays into the wider world of health-care consulting in a wholly different—and considerably more critical—light...
...device, William Boger, was, in fact, an infamous Auschwitz guard known for instances of sadism. Like a secret mentioned in the first act of a tragedy, the Boger swing sits on the desk waiting patiently to go off.But Kertész’s novella is constructed around a vacuum of action, creating such a vast amount of unreleased pressure that not only does the dictatorship implode because of it, but so does the idea of any finite distinction between the human and the inhuman. The only action leaves two innocent victims “sagging on their fetters like...