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It lasted only 14 years, but the bauhaus stamped its own century and this one too. No one would claim that the taste for clean, simplified design that emanated from its classrooms ever became universal, certainly not among the toiling masses the Bauhauslers hoped to speak to. And nobody believes...
When the Nazis came to power in Dessau, the Bauhaus moved again, this time to Berlin under the directorship of none other than Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. He did what he could to appease the Nazis, forbidding left-wing student gatherings and producing exhibitions of what he hoped would...
Since 9/11, we've worried a lot about al-Qaeda's exporting terrorism to American soil. Call it the germ theory of terrorism--the idea that a foreign agent somehow infects people in America, creating hidden and diseased cells of domestic terrorists. From the Najibullah Zazi case to the Fort...
As it's practiced by the vast majority of laundry shops around the country, dry cleaning can be anything but clean. Most of the 35,000 dry cleaners in the U.S. use a colorless liquid called perchloroethylene (perc) as a solvent in the laundering process. Perc is not pretty - it...
Though the greatest risk is in the dry-cleaning workplace, perc can get into customers' homes and even into the air, water and soil when dry cleaners dispose of waste. But there are greener alternatives - and a growing number of cleaners taking advantage of them. One approach is to have...