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...image. Unlike their close cousin the x-ray, these photographs never violate the boundary between body and environment. The hands and lips are brilliant in their complexity, but never try to be more than a very sophisticated surface, never penetrating to bone and sinew. For Schneider, science illuminates the body??s form, without ever violating its sanctity. That constant sense of reverence is what makes his work art, rather than a photocopier joke gone horribly awry...
...vision of science that informs these photographs is, paradoxically, not scientific at all. Traditional science in the form of medicine seeks to classify, parametrize and regularize the body??with the aim of predicting and controlling function. Schneider works with a greater degree of freedom, in much the same way that chaos theory has opened up complex new vistas in hard science. Schneider shows how abstract art can be natural, since it can be generated simply by looking at parts of the body in a completely new way. Ironically, since science uses “handedness?...
Milena B. Yamaykina, a senior at MIT, said she was running on Storrow Drive around noon on Sunday when the first body??a “young-looking” woman sporting a blond ponytail and wearing athletic clothes—was pulled from the water...
...uncovered the body??s face, because I think the other people covered her with a T-shirt, and I saw a scrape on her forehead and possibly blood near the chest area, but it was hard to tell because the woman had dark clothes on,” she wrote in an e-mail. “The girl’s body looked all stiff, and she was on her back and looked like a dead crow with her hands and arms...
Harvard Alumni Association President Karen S. Kelly ’80 pledged Summers the full support of the alumni body??and especially hers, as Summers’ “former and favorite Ec 10 student...