Wot I wuz reading this morning....
Mar. 15th, 2005 08:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lsandersonTheater Chain Buying Sony's Digital Projectors
By SAUL HANSELL
"Landmark Theaters, the art-house chain controlled by Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner, will become the first chain to install a new generation of digital projectors developed by Sony, which show movies at twice the resolution of previous digital projectors. "
Mother Culture, or Only a Sister?
By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
"On a coastal flood plain etched by rivers flowing through swamps and alongside fields of maize and beans, the people archaeologists call the Olmecs lived in a society of emergent complexity. It was more than 3,000 years ago along the Gulf of Mexico around Veracruz."
Yes, It's a Lobster, and Yes, It's Blue
By KENNETH CHANG
"One lobster in a million is blue, and the reason is not that it has been holding its breath."
Bartolo Mascarello, 78, Who Made Wine the Old-Fashioned Way, Dies
By ERIC ASIMOV
"Bartolo Mascarello, a Barolo winemaker whose enduring adherence to traditional practices in the face of changing fashions made him a symbol of staunch loyalty, died Saturday at his home in the town of Barolo, Italy. He was 78."
Sy Wexler, Maker of Ubiquitous Classroom Films, Dies at 88
By MARGALIT FOX
"Sy Wexler, an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose educational movies - from "Squeak the Squirrel" to "Teeth Are for Life" - flickered for decades in darkened classrooms around the world, died on Thursday in Los Angeles. He was 88 and lived in Hollywood."
By SAUL HANSELL
"Landmark Theaters, the art-house chain controlled by Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner, will become the first chain to install a new generation of digital projectors developed by Sony, which show movies at twice the resolution of previous digital projectors. "
Mother Culture, or Only a Sister?
By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
"On a coastal flood plain etched by rivers flowing through swamps and alongside fields of maize and beans, the people archaeologists call the Olmecs lived in a society of emergent complexity. It was more than 3,000 years ago along the Gulf of Mexico around Veracruz."
Yes, It's a Lobster, and Yes, It's Blue
By KENNETH CHANG
"One lobster in a million is blue, and the reason is not that it has been holding its breath."
Bartolo Mascarello, 78, Who Made Wine the Old-Fashioned Way, Dies
By ERIC ASIMOV
"Bartolo Mascarello, a Barolo winemaker whose enduring adherence to traditional practices in the face of changing fashions made him a symbol of staunch loyalty, died Saturday at his home in the town of Barolo, Italy. He was 78."
Sy Wexler, Maker of Ubiquitous Classroom Films, Dies at 88
By MARGALIT FOX
"Sy Wexler, an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose educational movies - from "Squeak the Squirrel" to "Teeth Are for Life" - flickered for decades in darkened classrooms around the world, died on Thursday in Los Angeles. He was 88 and lived in Hollywood."
