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Ashford Hospitality Gets $1.48 Billion Offer from Weisman
2016-06-08 22:12:00| National Real Estate Investor
Sarah Mulholland Ashford Hospitality Prime Inc., a U.S. hotel owner that has been under pressure by activist investors, received an unsolicited offer from the Weisman Group to buy the company. read more
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Chuck Close: Face Forward On View at the Weisman Museum of Art in January
2014-12-11 21:00:13| Steel - Topix.net
The Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art at Pepperdine University is pleased to announce an important exhibition, Chuck Close: Face Forward - from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation, which will be on view January 17 through April 5, 2015. There will be a public opening reception on Saturday, January 17, from 6 to 8 p.m. Collector Jordan Schnitzer will present a special lecture in the museum, discussing his long involvement with the artist's work, during the opening reception on Saturday, January 17, 6:30-7 p.m. Chuck Close, one of the most influential artists of our time, earned his reputation by continuously reinventing portraiture.
Earth Control: Countdown, by Alan Weisman
2014-03-16 15:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: If we wanted to bring about the extinction of the human race as quickly as possible, how might we proceed? We could begin by destroying the planet's atmosphere, making it incapable of supporting human life. We could invent bombs capable of obliterating the entire planet, and place them in the hands of those desperate enough to detonate them. We could bioengineer our main food sources - rice, wheat and corn - in such a way that a single disease could bring about catastrophic famine. But the most effective...
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10.14: Alan Weisman
2013-09-09 19:36:23| Powells Books Events Calendar
Alan Weisman's Countdown (Little Brown and Company) is a powerful investigation into the chances for humanity's future, from the author of The World without Us. In this long awaited follow-up, Weisman again shows that he is one of our most provocative journalists — revealing what may be the fastest and most acceptable, practical, and affordable way of returning our planet (and our presence on it) to balance. Countdown is a landmark work: devastating, urgent, and deeply hopeful.
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