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...reception, attended by about 30 people, was held in the library to celebrate the gift and the donation of a collection of papers by Simone "Simca" Beck, a celebrated teacher of French cooking...
...whole project has been needlessly rushed, leaving insufficient time for proper inspection of the condition of the works, for restoration and for prepping them to endure the stress of travel. "I believe that the whole schedule was worked around the National Gallery having an open date," says James Beck, an art-history professor at Columbia University who runs a group called ArtWatch International, formed in 1992 to monitor unwise treatment and abusive restoration of works of art of world significance. "It was really a kind of tragic rush. Eighty works treated in a period of nine months is outrageously fast...
...that has become a minority viewpoint. Explains Alan Beck, an animal ecologist at Purdue: "There are undoubtedly still scientists out there who question the intelligence of dogs and cats because they don't have the hard data. They feel it's unscientific to acknowledge phenomena we can't prove." But the majority of Beck's colleagues, he says, now accept the notion that animals have, for lack of a better phrase, an emotional and intellectual life. "I am absolutely convinced, for example, that my dog feels guilty when he defecates on the rug," says Beck. "A blind observer could...
...asking for limousine service at our beck and call. Every Harvard student knew before coming here that some walking was part of the package, and that, weather-wise, Harvard is no Stanford or Berkeley...
...then, that organisms are not perfect. In many ways, they are not even efficient. However, they were not designed in a purposeful way. They are what a long, blind, unplanned evolutionary history has made them. (Beck, Liem & Simpson, Life...