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...Archigram drawings and watercolors were musings about what the postindustrial city had become, a compact node of entertainments and spectacles in a society of people in motion. That's the spirit of Peter Cook's Instant City in a Field Long Elevation from 1969, a deadpan fantasia of a city with all its diversions that could be lowered from the air by balloon. The philosopher Francis Bacon once wrote that "the monuments of wit survive the monuments of power." If that's true, then these whimsical flights of fancy will still be around long after some of the uglier skylines...
...provost calls it a night around 6:30 p.m., when he goes home to cook dinner for his children, aged 8, 12, and 16, and answers e-mail for a couple of hours before going...
...increased poultry sales and mass travel that mark the coming Tet Lunar New Year festival (beginning Feb. 9) are the perfect ingredients for an explosive rise in infections?and every infection gives the H5N1 virus the opportunity to further adapt to humans. "If something is going to cook, Tet is when it's going to happen," says Dr. Robert Webster, an avian-flu expert at the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis...
...never before. The Department of Justice is reviewing the new rules proposed by the N.A.R. to restrict access to the multiple-listing services with an eye to determining if any antitrust issues are involved. "There is no intent to keep anybody from accessing this data," says N.A.R. spokesman Steve Cook, who points to the group's website of listings. Not all firms would be free to use those listings, though, and critics argue that the data really belong to home sellers--not to the real estate agents who maintain the listings. "It's clearly in the clients' best interest...
...pirate radio. Podcasts are recorded episodes of varying lengths made by people ranging from experienced pros to wannabe DJs. They can be listened to on your computer whenever you please or downloaded to your iPod or similar MP3 player and enjoyed while you drive to work, jog or cook dinner. Championed by former MTV VJ Adam Curry, who created iPodder.org and launched his first podcast in August 2004, the idea has snowballed and there are now more than a thousand podcasters. The content could use an upgrade, but at least there's variety. Podcasts range over such topics as religion...