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...wanted domes, brick and ivy for our house, but many of us ended up in Mather. We jogged along the Charles, ate cheesesteak subs at Tommy’s Lunch and labored for hours in the stacks at Widener. We learned French impressionism, American transcendentalism, Keynesian economics and behavioral psychology...
...more obsessed gamble is taking place across America at the Integrated Media Systems Center at the University of Southern California. The center resides in a squat, red brick building, well baked by the Los Angeles sun, whose modest exterior camouflages the far-out work that's happening within. The group is focused on a multimedia effort to bring virtual people together for lifelike encounters. The project is fusing several state-of-the-art technologies - 3-D facial modeling and animation, video compression, spatially placed sound - to create a full-fledged virtual world...
...coward about it," he says, "rather than someone who felt like it really was a very private thing." He now readily describes himself as a "queer artist." But not everything about Stipe is open for explanation. When he is asked why he seems to have a blue brick tattooed on his right hand, he just smiles. "Reason?" he says. "This is Michael Stipe you're talking to, young...
...days or for the whole summer, with events that range from lecture series to local-history celebrations and performing-arts extravaganzas. Some annual festivals, like the Williamstown Theatre Festival at Williams College, have become renowned, while others flourish as treasured local secrets. A few phone calls can transform the brick-and-mortar blur of a college tour into a cultural education for the whole family. A sampling...
...Hong Kong and Taiwanese firms. None has an artificial limb and all received derisory compensation, generally a one-off payment of around $1,000. Official figures show there are 13,000 serious work injuries each year in Bao An county, which includes Shenzhen. Zhou, a 46-year-old former brick factory worker, has taken 600 cases since 1997, winning payouts of up to $99,000. He may be the last hope for these workers: two other Guangdong lawyers doing similar work were murdered two years...