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...college sophomore and you've been assigned to write a thesis on the art of comedy. Like many an industrious student in the information age, you go to the Internet and purchase one. On a website that sells dissertations and theses, you comb through papers on Moliere, Chaucer and Shakespeare until you find one you like: "Adam Sandler's Big Daddy: Utopian Qualities and Social Propaganda," a bargain at just under...
FIBERS What looks to the eye like a bit of lint actually may be a forest of clues. Scientists microscopically comb samples for human and animal hair, clothing threads, carpeting and even plant material to identify everything there and perhaps place a suspect at the scene of the crime...
...note that with fewer professors comes a dramatic decrease in the variety of the department. “It’s impossible to stay alert when you’re forced to listen to a lecture from the same morbidly obese white man with a suspect comb-over for three different classes,” he says. “You would think for 40 Gs a year I could get a little variety...
...sculptor whose works, known for combining grace with colossal size, earned him the nickname "Man of Iron"; in San Sebastian, Spain. Giving up careers in soccer and architecture, Chillida moved to Paris in 1948 to set up his first studio, but returned to Spain two years later. His piece Comb of the Winds, featured on Spanish coins, became a symbol of the ongoing conflict in Chillida's native Basque region...
...producer. He starts with a drumbeat or bass line, adds piano or guitar to carry the melody, sprinkles in a few odd elements--a triangle, a cello, an organ--to make things interesting, and finishes the whole thing off with vocals. But before he begins, he has to comb through old vinyl bins for raw materials. "In the most passive way," says Davis, "what I put out depends on what comes...