Новости за 24.03.2011

Thursday, March 24, 2011 A new program called “No Kid Hungry” is adding breakfast to the school curriculum. In L.A. County, more than 300,000 students who eat free or reduced-price school lunches don’t eat school breakfasts, according to the California Food Policy Advocates. To make sure students don’t start the day hungry, No Kid Hungry, with funding from the Wal-Mart Foundation, intends to help childcare centers and schools make better use of funds already available. The goal is to increase participation... Читать дальше...

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In the thrilling first moments of the National Theater production of "Frankenstein," directed with rough magic by Danny Boyle and screening in the Capital Region through NT Live, a newborn tumbles hard from the womb and straight into the struggle that is life. Even those allergic to step-by-step chronicles of other people's babies are sure to be spellbound by the initial progress of the big little guy at the center of Nick Dear's adaptation of Mary Shelley's archetypal monster novel of 1818. Alternately... Читать дальше...

Since the late 1960s the nebulous concept of stardom has been subjected to a systematic inflation of values. In a routine television series, for instance, the status of some obscurely minor supporting performer is frequently aggrandised into that of "guest star"; many of the freakish menagerie of hangers-on who peopled Andy Warhol's Factory-produced psychodramas complacently styled themselves "superstars"; and Barry Humphries' alter ego, the redoubtable Edna Everage, has risen almost imperceptibly... Читать дальше...