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Harvard Stem Cell Institute Co-director and Biology Professor Douglas A. Melton and educational consultant Gail O’Keefe will lead Eliot House. Honored multiple times by TIME Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world, Melton is considered to be a pioneer in his field. O'Keefe works to improve access to quality education for high-risk youth in the Boston area...
First there were the AOL chat rooms, the pioneer of forums for online creepers and the occasional renegade tween to unite nationwide. Then MySpace came along and ratcheted it up a notch, giving a face to the cyber freak in the form of the emo bathroom mirror photoshoot. And even for the high-brow college crowd, Facebook arrived to provide the perfect venue for creeping clandestinely—without compromising class. But no site has exploded onto the social networking scene quite as absurdly and gloriously as Chatroulette...
...palpable increase in tension among staff at Beijing's hippest new eatery, Capital M, when Michelle Garnaut strolls in on a wintry evening, and it's hardly surprising. That's her initial in the restaurant's name, and the 51-year-old Australian is an industry celebrity - the pioneer of China's fashionable-dining scene, whose invariably popular ventures occupy iconic locations in their chosen cities. By her own account, Garnaut has come a long way from being a woman "famous for my bad temper" and a "detail-obsessed" micromanager who "drove everyone crazy." These days, "have no enemies...
...Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive,” said Walt Disney of the cinematographic field he helped pioneer. Since Disney popularized animation however, its creative potential has been largely underestimated and the genre has often been relegated to essentially childish themes. Even animated films such as “Toy Story” and “Up,” that received widespread critical acclaim, attained commercial success by marketing themselves as movies intended for pre-teens...
...formula, if the method of choice is strong enough, can produce stunning results. And when all is said and done, “Heligoland” subscribes to a pretty good method. Nobody does the bleak soundscapes and skittering breakbeats that characterize trip-hop, which Massive Attack themselves helped pioneer, to greater effect than Del Naja and Marshall. So for the most part, the songs of “Heligoland” are highly successful. These ten tracks are united around a dark, chilling vision that completely absorbs the listener into the album’s world...