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...same time that Schrodinger unleashed his quantum cat, the British mathematician Alan Turing was sketching out the theory of the modern digital computer. A decade later, during World War II, Turing was helping program Colossus, a room-size electronic calculating machine that used 1,800 vacuum tubes to crack German codes. The abstraction had become real...
Ichiro heads home to take a crack with the bat in the Tokyo Dome, and China gets down to dance trio Morcheeba. All this and more coming this March in Asia. Here are our picks of things...
...time, it will help us stand up." On Mtukudzi's last morning in Binga, the choir seems to be stronger, more confident. They zip through a couple of songs, and Tuku raises his arms to heaven, in triumph - or is it thanksgiving? But they soon tire. Their voices crack. Their legs ache. Their new outfits - rich gold paired with a chocolate-brown batik - make them itch. Partway into Bonga Hlabelela, a hopeful song written by the children that says, "Have faith in the Lord! Sing! Sing!", Tuku waves the choir to a stop. He consults the choirmasters about a note...
Turkish coffee, Turkish carpets, yes. But Turkish jeans? No item of clothing is as American as a pair of jeans, and no market is harder to crack. So when the father and son team behind burgeoning Turkish denim brand Mavi set their sights on the New World, people naturally thought they were mad. Even madder, rather than sell their jeans at Wal-Mart on the cheap, as many developing country producers do, the pair went for the gold: fashion-conscious youths willing to fork out $60 a pair. And for more than a year after Mavi began exporting to select...
...Soon after it was completed, a group of self-appointed phallus-breakers knocked the ice-encrusted sculpture to bits. The destruction of the phallus was clearly a cowardly act of vandalism. But what were the motives of the phallus breakers? That’s a much harder nut to crack...