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...true blonds have more fun?"), the postmodern beauty industry casts artificial color as a means of expressing a deeper truth about who one is. It's all about "helping each woman create an authentic connection between how she feels internally versus how she looks externally," Cona says. As Rose Weitz, author of Rapunzel's Daughters: What Women's Hair Tells Us About Women's Lives, put it, "Even if, in the abstract, we think we look all right with gray hair, we nonetheless feel as if we are losing our 'real selves' if we no longer have our 'real hair...
...Research—that’s what this university runs on, and we have to fund it,” says David A. Weitz, a physics professor who directs Harvard’s Materials Research Science and Engineering Center. Weitz says the University may have to turn to private-sector sources—including venture capital firms—more frequently in the future as federal agencies tighten their purse strings...
Being a fan helps with the tricky business of winning over fanboys of established franchises, who tend to be a protective bunch. When Chris Weitz was tapped to direct this fall's His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass, an adaptation of the first book in Philip Pullman's fantasy series, starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig, the About a Boy director made the mistake of going online and reading a poll of fan reaction. "I had just barely beaten 'nobody' as the person who would be the best director for the series," says Weitz, who eventually invited some fans onto...
...which a young heroine played by newcomer DAKOTA BLUE RICHARDS (yes, another little blond named Dakota) journeys to a universe of flying witches, armored bears and humans living alongside their animal-shaped souls. "It's a character-driven effects movie, if there is such a thing," director Chris Weitz says of the tale from Philip Pullman's series His Dark Materials. And what plays NICOLE KIDMAN'S soul? "A very evil, vicious monkey." But, you know, an elegant, Australian species...
...short-term view,” said a spokesman for the Kavli Foundation, Saswato Das. “We are here to support the long-term view,” Leading the new institute will be co-directors George M. Whitesides, the Flowers University professor, and David A. Weitz, the Mallinckrodt professor of physics and applied physics. Their main initial duties will be to set the institute’s research agenda and to get more faculty groups on board. The Kavli Foundation was founded in 2000 by Fred Kavli, a businessman turned philanthropist, in order to probe three main...