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...World War II, Morley Safer in Vietnam and now, with his deskbound coverage of the fighting in Iraq, The Daily Show's Stewart. As he incessantly points out, he plays host on a fake newscast on a basic cable channel (Comedy Central), but this allows him to be critical, arch, incredulous and relevant, to the delight of viewers and the envy of many real journalists...
...dazzled by Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as reimagined by Robert Sabuda. Modestly calling itself a pop-up book, it is in fact a collection of delicately engineered set pieces that protrude in every direction. On one two-page spread, a group of miniature playing cards arranged in an arch looks almost like sculpture. It may be best to keep the book away from the very young, who will probably be so enamored of it that they'll want to rip, crush or chew its fragile constructions...
Empedocles doesn't expect his product to reach market until 2006. With $70 million in venture funding from Arch Ventures, Polaris and Lux Capital, along with multimillion-dollar U.S. government contracts from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, the 35-person company should make it. With persistence and that old variable, luck, firms like Medis, Hydrogenics and Nanosys could see a big payback for giving power to the people. The way Lifton sees it, that would be one happy song. --With reporting by Chris Daniels/Toronto, Unmesh Kher/New York and Chris...
Recently, Yeats aficionados the world over have been given another reason to celebrate the poet—the final volume of Yeats’ extensive biography, W.B. Yeats: A Life, The Arch-Poet, 1915-1939, has been released. The prolific work details the second half of his life and includes some of his most critically acclaimed poetry...
...cheerleader. Her name, according to the posters she scotch-taped to my brother’s mirror, is Shelli. According to age-old tradition, she was obliged to decorate my brother’s bedroom before the big Thanksgiving Day game against the Barnstable Red Raiders’ arch-rivals, the Falmouth Clippers. I was, of course, appalled. It was disturbing that at the dawn of the 21st century young women, rather than pursuing interests of their own, were forced to dedicate their efforts to fashioning glitter-dusted posters (“Kosman ... He’s Yet to Take...