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Reflecting on her ground-breaking experiences in the scientific community at Radcliffe and in the corporate patriarchal world, Selby remembers her climb to success fondly...
...Landscape with Philosopher, jagged peaks climb to over nine feet, as Lichtenstein vertically stacks over 10 different dot screens. The most captivating moments are the points where the screens overlap, intersect or dissolve into one another. Here Lichtenstein again demonstrates his masterful visual economy, using the exact same dots to signify mist, mountain or perhaps both at the same time. This ambiguity leads to a spatial confusion and mystery as convincing and sophisticated as any of the real Song Dynasty paintings hanging in the galleries upstairs...
...Climbing continued after May 10. An American, Ed Viesturs, who was making a movie for IMAX, reported passing the bodies of his friends Fischer and Hall. One other death, a South African whose colleagues let him climb past his turnaround time, brought the fatalities for the season to 12. If that number is compared with the 84 people who summitted, Krakauer observes dryly, "1996 was actually a safer-than-average year...
DIED. GINO SANTI, 81, U.S. Air Force engineer who developed the pilot ejection system; in Dayton, Ohio. To replace the clumsy climb out of the cockpit, Santi devised a controlled explosion to propel a pilot safely away from a crippled plane...
...person knowingly transmitting the AIDS virus, 13 women McGee had sex with have tested HIV-positive. Some are pregnant. At least one has given birth to an infected infant. State public health officials, who are trying to track down and notify his sex partners, expect the tally to climb as more women come forward to be tested...