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...probably best not to think about the flock of satellites that will help guide the great sailing ship being built in Mystic, Conn. Construct a 19th century boat according to 19th century plans, equip it with 5,200 sq. ft. of 19th century-style sails, and you'd like to think its crew will be steering by the stars, not by some 21st century machines flying high overhead...
...managed to construct an entire parallel universe of lies, more real and more politically efficient than the truth. As the historian Alan Schom has written: "On returning to France... much to his utter astonishment, the thirty-year-old Napoleon Bonaparte found himself greeted by a madly exuberant French people who knew little of his phenomenal disasters and instead saw only the man who had captured Malta, the Pyramids, and Egypt, the latter-day republican crusader who had taken Cairo from the heathens...
...emphasizes the personhood of the mother first and foremost. It argues that because a fetus is not a fully human person, the conflict between its rights and those of the mother is a false construct. According to SFC's view, reproductive rights secure liberty while preserving quality of life by ensuring that every mother is a mother by choice and that every child is a wanted child. Their view is that governmental attempts to take away those rights will only send desperate women back to illegal clinics, where unlicensed doctors perform unsanitary abortions which can lead to severe bleeding...
...create something tangible out of what began as a private activity. And even in the performative nature of the opening of the boxes, we sense a latent 1970s effect of theatricality. But perhaps this inclusivity of concepts is the very representation of art in time. The millennium, artificial construct that it is, provides nonetheless an opportunity for retrospection. And Time Boxes 2000, as a self-contained survey of some issues in the last 25 years of art, is retro at its best...
...executive order stipulates that developers either set aside 10 percent of their developed units at affordable prices or else construct off-site housing units equal to 15 percent of their development...