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...COMPETITIONS 1,000 Length, in meters, of a tightrope-billed as the longest ever-strung across Seoul's Han River, as part of what organizers called the world's first international high-wire competition 11 min. 22 sec. Time it took winner Abudusataer Wujiabudula, an ethnic Uighur from China, to cross the tightrope, earning him a prize...
...Atget, a Retrospective," until July 1 at the library's Richelieu center in Paris, marks the 150th anniversary of the artist's birth and the 80th of his death. The show offers 350 scenes of a vanished era: quiet courtyards, bustling squares, manicured parks, crumbling cornices and balustrades, placid river barges and enticing shop fronts, as well as strollers, street hawkers and sleeping drunks. Many of the pictures have never been exhibited before, and all but one were printed by the photographer himself. Together they form an impressively confident and distinctive body of work...
...Yardfest 2006, which packed Tercentenary Theatre all the way back to the Widener steps, this year Tercentenary was less than half full when Third Eye Blind walked on stage. Ironically, Yardfest 2006 had a rain plan—Ben Folds would have played in the Lavietes Pavilion across the river. No such plan existed for Yardfest 2007.The lack of a rain plan would be somewhat understandable if this were the first campus-wide event of the year to be affected by Boston weather, but that is not the case. (Harvard-Yale pep rally, anyone?) These kinds of logistical failures have...
...Bayou Bob" Popplewell, the owner the Brazos River Rattlesnake Ranch south of Dallas, is the founder U.S. Turtle and Aquatic Resource Technologies (USTART), a cooperative with some 400 members who collect and sell turtles primarily to the Asian market. "This is a vast renewable resource that we can harvest and manage wisely," Popplewell says...
Organizations including the Charles River Clean-Up, the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter, and Habitat for Humanity will collaborate on project...