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Inside a darkened viewing chamber on the top floor of Paris' Centre Pompidou, visitors peer at what looks like a psychedelic astral storm, raging to a soundtrack of electronic bleeps and retro '70s rock. In a 45-minute video loop, a twisting cloud vortex is projected onto a long rectangular screen, morphing through the colors of the rainbow while meteorite showers and 3-D computer incrustations drift across the foreground. "I'd like people to look at it like they'd look at a sunset," says Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, the artist responsible for Exotourisme. "I wanted to blur the boundaries...
...reformers seemed to have little patience for appeals to Canon law. Says Mike Emerton of Voice of the Faithful, a group that grew out of dismay over the church's mishandling of Boston abusers: "[The Vatican] shows they have no understanding of the depth of this problem." --By John Cloud. Reported by Jeff Israely/Rome and Maggie Sieger/Chicago
...freshly traumatized by the national ordeal we all had endured just a couple of weeks before. Leaving friends and family to travel far from home is always tough, but that trip was all the tougher when I knew that my loved ones were living under the cloud of fear and confusion that the terrorists had imposed...
...Afghan caves can't muster. Terrorist states can thrive without terrorist networks. But terrorist networks can barely exist without terrorist states. Deterrence no longer works to defeat them. Besides, the destructive power of weapons of mass destruction changes past calculations. The first smoking gun may now be a mushroom cloud. To risk that is irresponsible...
After 11 straight victories, Tim Murphy’s vaunted Harvard football team finally came down from cloud nine last Saturday as it lost a tough 36-35 game to Lehigh in Bethlehem, Pa. Harvard (2-1, 1-0 Ivy) will be looking to bounce back tomorrow at 1 p.m. when a rejuvenated Cornell (1-2, 0-1 Ivy) team comes to town...