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...there's change afoot, signaled this week by the Harvard Graduate School of Design, which presented its annual Excellence in Design award to, of all things, a car designer: J Mays, the 47-year-old Oklahoman who has been in charge of car design at Ford since 1997. Mays is a guy whose world is actively about more than cars. Call him the auto industry equivalent of a cross-dresser, because he's a serious advocate of good fashion, product design and architecture, and doesn't mind dissing his own industry's shortcomings. His approach has begun to draw...
...Within the hallowed confines of Harvard University’s common rooms… amidst the cozy complacency of over-stuffed sofas and Oriental rugs, the twenty-first century has rushed in and rudely taken over. Art history has been debunked and artistic conventions rewritten. Something is afoot at Harvard—listen to the whimpering yelp of the underdog howling in the yard. Watch anger turn into art. Rejoice as the dog slips its leash and jumps up growling ‘Oh Bondage, Up Yours...
...attending flight school. Curiously, though, agents have found no trace of contacts between Moussaoui and Atta or any of the other 18 hijackers. If Moussaoui was a member of another Al Qaeda cell, as investigators suspect, where's the rest of it? Most urgently, is a plot still afoot? These are the questions the FBI and its European allies are scrambling to answer...
...government has decided now might be a good time to look into vaccinating the entire nation against smallpox - a disease that was officially eradicated in 1977. It?s no small task: Health officials estimate we now have about 15 million doses of the vaccine, and there are plans afoot to purchase another 300 million. The government could also dilute existing doses just enough to inoculate everyone - without, we can only assume, compromising the immunizing threshold of the vaccine. The vaccine, drawn from active smallpox cultures, can also slow or stop the advance of the disease if administered during the first...
Last week they were replaced by tears. There are indeed wild beasts afoot, and their acts packed synagogues even fuller than usual for Yom Kippur. Many churches and mosques were swamped after Sept. 11. The influx raised almost as many questions as the atrocity--about both God and American faith...