As technology makes old forms of music and movie storage obsolete, the piles of cassette tapes, 8-tracks, vinyl records, videocassettes, etc, can begin to pile up. But a slew of new do-it-yourself conversion options are beginning to become available to consumers.
Tag: 03.29.07
The Hermitage In Italy
The Hermitage Museum will establish a branch in Italy. “The treasures will be housed in the 14th-century Castello Estense, the ‘jewel’ at the heart of Ferrara. A palazzo and park will also be restored to provide a residential study centre for Italian and Russian art experts.”
A Wealth Of Education (Ain’t Good)
“It is hardly surprising that lots of rich kids go to America’s richest colleges. It has always been so. But today’s students are richer on average than their predecessors. Between the mid-1970s and mid-1990s, in a sample of eleven prestigious colleges, the percentage of students from families in the bottom quartile of national family income remained roughly steady– around 10 percent. During the same period the percentage of students from the top quartile rose sharply, from a little more than one third to fully half.”