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Diversity, Mother of Invention Toh Peng Sun arrived from Singapore via Antwerp. He's a fashion designer, and he now lives in a light-filled apartment along one of the city's many canals. "Suddenly I could breathe," he says. "This is a whole city of people who don't...
A lanky, laconic figure who often sports a mohawk and downplays his experimentation as a part-time sideline to commercial TV work, the Ipoh-born Lee has been honing his craft for nearly a decade - moving beyond amateurish imitations of Jim Jarmusch where quirky characters seemed to inhabit a lot...
Building on the linguistic science developed by the pioneering semiotician Ferdinand de Saussure, Lévi-Strauss became a pivotal figure in the development of structuralism, which holds that universal mental structures underlie the behaviors, social relations and beliefs of virtually all societies in all eras. It was an idea with...
The Coca-Cola Company offered the American Academy of Family Physicians a six-figure grant through the AAFP’s new Consumer Alliance program, but a Harvard School of Public Health professor has called for the group to return the money.
Green Technology In an Oct. 23 speech at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Obama said the country that wins the race to develop renewable forms of energy "will be the nation that leads the global economy." That's something China's leadership heartily agrees with. China has become the world...