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...Nonami, 47, is the latest in a small group of tremendously popular contemporary female Japanese mystery writers to be translated into English. Their lurid fiction is anchored in ostensibly mundane domestic affairs - far cries from the hard-boiled yakuza netherworld of conventional Japanese crime fiction, where women mostly inhabit peripheral positions as prostitutes or femmes fatales. Like Natsuo Kirino, whose best-selling 1997 novel Out chronicles a band of disaffected middle-aged bento-box factory workers who moonlight as murderesses, Nonami places women at the center of her work. As the author of some 50 books, she is more prolific...
...Michelle E. Crentsil ‘10, an editor of H Bomb, said she supports Di Pasquale’s efforts. “I think artistic magazines involving the way people think about their bodies is always a great thing,” Crentsil said. But Diamond will inhabit a different niche than H Bomb, with its artistic focus, according to Di Pasquale. Diamond will be more mainstream—”more Hollywood”—à la Maxim or Playboy, he said. Diamond will feature nude female models and possibly shirtless males...
...made outstanding contributions to astronomy and enhanced our understanding of the world beyond the one we inhabit,” Discover Chief Executive Officer Henry Donahue said in the statement...
...late 1990s, when two MIT professors hit on RFID tags as a way to help robots "see" the physical objects around them. That's the genius of RFID: it's a way to make the ordinary physical world of people and objects visible to the virtual world that computers inhabit. It maps real space onto virtual space, so the two worlds can talk to each other...
...spoke of taking advantage of an increasingly global culture in which knowledge—a university’s stock in trade—is a universal currency.“Just as we live in a time of narrowing distances between fields and disciplines, so we inhabit an increasingly transnational world in which knowledge itself is the most powerful connector,” Faust said.Faust also criticized efforts to hold universities accountable simply on the basis of test scores, graduation rates, and admissions statistics.“We need to define ourself and not simply let ourselves be defined...