| Climate Protesters Plan Campaign of Direct Action Against UK Polluters
Climate change protesters have made plans for a nationwide campaign of direct action against greenhouse gas polluters across the UK. They warn that the campaign is set to become "more urgent" in the face of mounting evidence of growing environmental damage. Hundreds of campaigners grabbed media headlines last summer when they set up a protest camp outside Heathrow and blocked the headquarters of airport operators BAA. Other demonstrators barred the entrances of the Department for Transport, alongside other high-profile stunts. Now they say they will target Heathrow again but escalate the campaign by striking at other targets across the country. These targets are believed to include the Kingsnorth power station in Kent, where the German power giant E.ON is planning to build the first new coal-fired power station in the UK for more than 20 years.
Man dies after being hit by van in Mantua Township
MANTUA TWP., N.J. -- A man who was walking north on Glassboro Road near Lambs Road, carrying an umbrella and pushing a bicycle, was hit by a van and suffered fatal injuries early Wednesday. Jaglar Singh, 62, had a last known address in North Plainfield, but police believe he had been staying somewhere in Pitman. Singh, dressed in black, appeared to have been struck from behind by the 1999 Ford Econoline van, driven by Richard Mack, 41, of Pitman, said police. Mack stopped his van and dialed 911 for help at about 5:34 a.m. A Glassboro police officer, who was returning from transporting a prisoner, was first on the scene and he and other officers administered cardiopulmonary resuscitation on the victim until emergency medical technicians arrived to take over, police said.
TV Today
Taylor (Kyle Chandler) struggles with jealousy when an old flame of Tami's (Connie Britton) visits. Late Show With David Letterman (11:35 p.m.-12:35 a.m., CBS3) - Actor Colin Farrell; actress Blake Lively; Lenny Kravitz performs. The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson (12:35-1:35 a.m., CBS3) - Actress Jessica Alba; actress Mo'Nique; Dierks Bentley performs. .
the undercover economist
In the late 1870s, a magician named Buatier de Kolta was mesmerizing audiences in Paris with the trick of producing big bunches of paper flowers from an empty roll of paper. Nobody knew how the trick was achieved, until a stray gust of wind blew one of the flowers onto the floor in front of the stage. A magician in the audience seized it and ran out, and de Kolta's trick was soon being performed by many of his rivals. The story is told by Jacob Loshin, a recent graduate from Yale Law school, in a working paper on how magicians protect their tricks. Such outright thefts would be hard to imagine today, because magicians have developed a professional code of conduct to defend their most valuable property: their ideas. The research bears—albeit obliquely—on an issue that is only going to become more important: intellectual property in a world where more and more of the wealth that is created takes the form of ideas rather than objects.
Pop culture in fine art's home
In 1998, the Guggenheim Museum in New York staged "The Art of the Motorcycle" and drew a record number of visitors. That was followed two years later by a tribute to Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani, prompting some critics to proclaim it a thinly veiled advertisement for the designer's clothes.
Portraits by celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz and Pop artist Andy Warhol were the most well visited exhibits at the Miami Art Museum in recent years. Even the staid Metropolitan Museum of Art has capitalized on fashion and celebrity to boost attendance. In 2001, the New York museum showcased clothes and jewelry worn by first lady Jacqueline Kennedy. Both Lippman and Delson see the Princess Di extravaganza, with its emphasis on fashion, as similar to the Jackie-O show.
But is it real?
Purists in the art world dismiss some of these recent blockbusters as crassly commercial, compromising museum integrity for cash.
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