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Half-an-hour before the scheduled start of Wednesday evening's Materials Research and Nanoscale science lecture, the 250 seats in Harvard's Jefferson Hall were taken - and a policeman by the door was going to make sure that none of the dozens of students gathered wistfully outside the entrance was going to sneak in. Those unlucky enough to have missed out on the two overflow rooms that offered large-screen projections of the event were advised to watch the live webcast. The draw-card of the evening at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences was no rock...
...Since then, Ferran Adria has become an even more popular and influential global cultural figure. He has been hailed as an artist at Germany's prestigious Documenta arts festival in Kassel, and at Harvard he was rubbing elbows with some of the world's leading scientists. (On Wednesday, he signed an "understanding" with the University's Materials Research center to work on college courses and a book on science and culinary creativity). He's even done a turn in the movies, playing the chef on the Spanish-language version of the animated Ratatouille. Some American magazines no longer even bother...
Many factors weigh on the bond market, such as the falling price of oil - it closed at $43.52 per bbl. in Wednesday's trading - and the progress of the auto-industry bailout, not to mention every gasp from the housing market. And then there's the elephant in the room: the downward spiral of economic activity, including last week's chilling November employment report, which showed 533,000 more people out of work - "one of the worst ever," according to Morgan Stanley economist Ted Wieseman. As the various industry bailouts - banks, auto companies, credit unions and, next, states - seek...
...shaky fortunes of the ailing U.S. auto industry, appearances could hardly have been more deceiving than they were Wednesday on Capitol Hill. Late in the day, the House of Representatives passed by a wide margin of 237-170 a bill to give General Motors and Chrysler $14 billion in emergency loans from a green modernization fund that Congress created earlier this year. (Ford is in better shape and has not asked for short-term emergency assistance.) But behind the scenes, things looked pretty dire for the Big Three's hopes of a rescue...
Elsewhere in the city on Wednesday, dozens of petitioners protesting causes such as wrongful terminations and illegal confiscation of property gathered outside the Foreign Ministry office, according to reports. After a short while, police broke up the rare demonstration, corralled protesters onto a bus and drove them away from the government offices...