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...That's about the same value as today's global recorded-music industry. Executives rhapsodize on grocery-store displays that will advertise directly to you, based on information picked up from, say, a chip in your cell phone. Perishables like milk could be packaged with sensors layered in their cardboard to let you know whether they've always been stored at appropriate temperatures. Other products in the pipeline include plastic solar panels, low-cost memory sticks and displays like big-screen TVs that could be rolled up and stashed when guests come over...
...Double Hung I” intriguingly dangles conceptual ideas within viewers’ realm of understanding, but refuses easy answers. The exhibition displays a remarkable variety of media. Showcasing 18 works selected from undergraduate Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) classes, the exhibition includes works in oil paint, graphite, cardboard, Plexiglas, animation, and film. Department faculty selected the pieces, which present a smorgasbord of styles, from the precision of “The Couple/A drawing by a couple with two hands” by Margot “Tess” Wood ’10 to the recollection of ready...
...well-dressed crowds in China's capital. But one look and you could tell they were poor peasants in unfamiliar city clothes. Their shirts all had identical shirt-box creases. One peasant, an apple grower named Liang Yumin, tugged at his neck throughout our conversation, fingering the piece of cardboard still tucked under his collar...
...weeks ago, the Qixia men contacted me again. Liang Yumin, the villager who had neglected to remove the cardboard from his collar six years ago, had committed suicide. Over the years, Liang had been jailed and beaten. Any time he needed help from a government bureau, he faced obstruction. Liang told a friend that he wished he had never run for office. He cursed himself for having been popular enough to win. With no end to the mistreatment in sight, Liang told one friend he was considering drastic measures. On Nov. 25, he killed himself by swallowing pills...
...look and play the part of merrymakers, the crowd was given bags of props, all courtesy of corporate America. Red Mad Hatter hats had "Chevy" stamped on them. This year there was "wordfetti": pieces of cardboard, a bit smaller than calling cards, with the words CELEBRATE, LOVE, PEACE, PLAY and DANCE printed on them. On the back was the logo of Target, which also sponsored those glasses in the shape of a 2007, with the zeroes for eye holes (a clever design that will become obsolete in 2010). DiscoverCard had its brand on the ginchiest bit of couture, a fringed...