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Tintin fans will rejoice in finally having a permanent tribute to Hergé's creation. And the new Magritte Museum in Brussels was also long overdue, says Charly Herscovici, head of the Magritte Foundation: "Brussels needs a Magritte museum just like Paris has a Picasso museum and Amsterdam a Van Gogh museum." Housed in the prim, neoclassical Hotel Altenloh just a stone's throw from the Royal Palace, the Magritte Museum is part of the complex of buildings that comprise Belgium's Royal Museums of Fine Art. But the sober-minded setting is something of a deception: echoing the artist...
...Francisco, Griskevicius presented new research that furthers the competitive-altruism theory. Traditionally, economists have presumed that if people are seeking status, they will simply buy the most luxurious product they can afford. But Griskevicius and his colleagues - Joshua Taylor of the University of New Mexico and Bram Van den Bergh of the Rotterdam School of Management - theorized that when given an eco-friendly alternative, competitive altruism would compel people to forgo luxury for environmental status. To test the theory, they conducted several experiments...
...Nelson wrote in the message that the team “does not anticipate major delays” and expects to have a fully functional permanent antenna in place by the summer of 2010. In the meantime, a cell on wheels (COW)—a van containing signal transmission and reception equipment—could be moved into place by August, also contingent on the completion of a two to three month permit application process by AT&T and approval from the City of Cambridge. COWs are frequently used to provide backup cell phone coverage when storms or other...
...That doesn't mean Koch won't be busy. "They're going to get all the cats and dogs," says Van Conway, a corporate-restructuring expert from Birmingham, Mich. "It's probably going to take a couple of years to get rid of them all." (Watch a video about an optimistic Dodge dealer...
...residential life. “Instead of making a decision now, we really want to wait until folks get back in the fall,” Nelson said. In the interim, Nelson said that the administration will look into the feasibility of alternatives to shuttles, including escort and van services, which Hammonds called currently “less than optimal” in her May 18 e-mail. —Staff writer Bita M. Assad can be reached at bassad@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Ahmed N. Mabruk can be reached at amabruk@fas.harvard.edu...