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...traveling around the world to document the spread of an ancient disease that has a deadly new face: extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB). The extraordinary pictures in this week's issue are the foundation for a unique collaboration with TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design)--an organization devoted to "ideas worth spreading." Last year Jim won the TED prize--a grant of $100,000 and his "wish to change the world." That wish was to create a global-awareness movement around XDR-TB. Beginning Oct. 3, TED will unveil multimedia projects in major cities around the world, including London, Los Angeles...
...Angeles carry his stamp. So do an agile reconfiguration of the Morgan Library in New York City and a 52-story headquarters for the New York Times. Still to come are an addition to the Art Institute of Chicago; new buildings for the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; a makeover of the Harvard University Art Museum; and a satellite facility in Manhattan for the Whitney Museum of American Art. It's Renzo Piano's world. We're just living...
...attempt that would have tied the game if successful.In Ithaca, Cornell fans witnessed an upset of equal proportions by their Big Red. Embarrassed after being smacked around by Yale in a 51-12 drubbing last season, Cornell’s defense unleashed a relentless attack that left five sacks worth of bruises on the Bulldog quarterbacks’ bodies and pride and stumped the great Mike McLeod, Yale’s juggernaut of a running back. The result was a 17-14 Big Red win and a dumbfounded look on the face of the Ivy League pundits.Predictions be damned.Having said...
...draft pick, it was a pretty big deal to get invited because they only invite guys they think are worth trying to develop,” Haviland says. “It signified going from the 33rd round to them actually thinking of me as a prospect. It was a pretty exciting...
...prestigious universities—what Deresiewicz called “Ivy retardation.” The two main disadvantages of elite education, Deresiewicz wrote in the article, are that it makes students incapable of interacting with people unlike them, and that it instills a false sense of self-worth in them. He wrote that the biggest failure of elite education is that it is self-perpetuating, preventing the American intelligentsia from evolving. Despite being promoted as a debate, after briefly introducing themselves, the two undergraduates—Elise X. Liu ’11 and Jeffrey J. Phaneuf...