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...them different, most of them hovering between the abstract and the recognizable. From time to time over the years Puryear has even edged into producing recognizable objects. As early as 1981 he made Desire, a giant wagon wheel connected by a long wooden spoke to an upright basket-weave stanchion, a thing forever in orbit around a center it can't approach. But lately he has been introducing into his work more of what he calls "things with a previous life in the world": wheels, tree trunks and even wheelbarrows that are found objects and that come into...
...stayed awake for 35 hours. Near the end of the second day, students were placed in an MRI scanner, as pictures flashed before them, said the study’s leader, psychologist Matthew Walker of University California at Berkeley. The first were relatively neutral, such as an empty wicker basket. But near the end of the 100-image sequence, the photos became more disturbing, such as one of severed limbs. Walker said students were initially “very amiable characters” but became increasingly “pendulum-like in their emotions.” The students proved...
North Korea would be an economic basket case if only it could afford the basket...
North Korea would be an economic basket case if only it could afford the basket. It was once the industrial engine of the Korean peninsula, but decades of disastrous central planning have left its infrastructure in a state of advanced decrepitude and its citizens in de facto peonage. The U.S. government estimates the North's per capita GDP to be about $1,800, roughly the same as Zimbabwe's. Per capita exports are about $60 a year--less than 1% of South Korea's. Aside from fishing, mining and cement production, the North has only a hodgepodge of functional industries...
...Most importantly, though, Iran is in a far stronger position to press for its terms than North Korea was. North Korea is an economic basket case with nukes; Iran doesn't yet have nukes, but it is one of the world's top five oil exporters, and its regional influence has grown exponentially as a result of the removal of two of its key enemies, Saddam Hussein and the Taliban, and by virtue of its defiance of the U.S. In short, Iran is far from desperate to deal right now, and it would be inclined to make Washington...