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...having anything move quickly into your field of vision in the water is startling. Mostly the technology succeeds, however, not because it makes you feel you're underwater so much as that you're no longer on solid ground. At several points, you almost want to hold your breath. (See photos of life beneath Antarctic...
...breath mint...
...Lithuania—a torture ritual of castration, evisceration, and sterilization. The most lasting surreality Vargalas experiences is a frozen city through which he alone moves, caught in a stillness that, he believes, allowed “Them” inside. Their fated romance echoes Vilnius’ last breath of air, before it’s shut beneath the gray exterior of a Soviet sarcophagus. The remaining three narrators are peripheral characters in Vargalas’ life—Martinas, a pontificating computer(less) programmer, Stefanija, a jealous and infertile seductress, and Gediminias, a brilliant mathematician turned jazz artist...
...says Coriel. “Even the stuff on the radio.”To prove his point, Coriel plays “I Want it That Way” by the Backstreet Boys to open the class. As a handful of people sing along under their breath, Coriel explains its cyclical structure and demonstrates how listeners must project their own experiences onto the lyrics in order to connect with the song.In the eyes of the students, Coriel’s class fills a void in the current curricular offerings. “There’s no actual classes...
...easy to overstate the problem. Daschle will be a footnote in the history of the Obama Administration, certainly when compared with monumental projects like the stimulus package and the bank bailout. But it might be time for Obama to take a breath, to rethink, if not reboot. The more I think about the stimulus supertanker, the more questionable it seems. Not substantively: most of the money in it is justifiable. But a case can be made that it should have been divided into discrete packages: a short-term booster with tax cuts, state aid and shovel-ready public works; then...