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...believe for a minute that Ansel Adams was sad the day he was able to stop lugging around glass plates in favor of film? William C. Simone Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U.S. Movies have evolved and will keep doing so as technology advances. I predict that Hollywood will eventually make feature-length movies by digitally re-creating long-gone movie legends. Using computer-generated imagery, animators will create fictional actors and maybe even render live movie stars a thing of the past. And on Oscar night, the red carpet in Hollywood will be rolled out for the computer geeks who created...
...Global Values 101,” the book spawned from the course, provides both the questions from the students and the essay-length answers from the guests...
...courses in the “sciences” that are often bandied about as a panacea for the ills of American higher education. I, like most people at Harvard, know numerous people that have studied abroad—though usually only for a semester, merely half the length Brooks recommends for a properly “transformative” experience. While everyone I know who has gone abroad has enjoyed the experience, the situation is perhaps not quite what Brooks had in mind. Student recollections of semesters abroad usually fall into two main components. First, those happily lengthy commentaries...
Movies have evolved and will keep doing so as technology advances. I predict that Hollywood will eventually make feature-length movies by digitally re-creating long-gone movie legends. Using computer-generated imagery, animators will create fictional actors and maybe even render live movie stars a thing of the past. And on Oscar night, the red carpet will be rolled out for the computer geeks who created the stars...
...that smokers and drinkers should be getting screened earlier than ever for colorectal cancer. Doctors usually recommend that patients schedule their first exam on or near their 50th birthday. If you get a colonoscopy--considered the gold standard of screenings because it allows doctors to examine the whole length of the lower intestine and snip off any precancerous polyps they find--you may not need to be screened again for 10 years. If you use one of the less definitive tests-- a flexible sigmoidoscopy, barium enema or simple stool analysis--you should get tested more frequently...