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Tucker has also mounted groundbreaking shows that have put Houston on the map as a city where interesting things can get their start. A good deal of what we know about Josef Sudek, the lyrical Czech master, or Joel Sternfeld, the indispensable guide to the American scene in all its lustrous oddity, or Brassai, the celebrated chronicler of Paris at night, we know because of exhibitions that Tucker organized. "What I've always loved to do is to look at what hasn't already been hammered out," she says. "In art history all the major figures have been researched...
...woman - down from 1.7 children per woman more than 20 years ago and 2.4 in 1960. In the Netherlands, 23% of children are born out of wedlock. And in the Eastern bloc, out-of-wedlock births in Poland have almost doubled in the past 20 years, while in the Czech Republic, marriage rates have fallen by 23% over the last decade. What's more, increasing numbers of Europeans are choosing not to have children at all, a trend that not only promises some sizable demographic shifts in the years ahead (with fewer younger people around to shoulder the cost...
Whatever the outcome, it was clear that some things had changed forever. The attacks will become a defining reference point for our culture and imagination, a question of before and after, safe and scarred. By 10:30 Tuesday morning, four tourists from the Czech Republic were at the Empire State building, buying up all the postcards with pictures of the World Trade Center on them. "Soon there will be no more of these cards also," one explained...
...Whatever the outcome, it was clear that some things had changed forever. The attacks will become a defining reference point for our culture and imagination, a question of before and after, safe and scarred. By 10:30 Tuesday morning, four tourists from the Czech Republic were at the Empire State building, buying up all the postcards with pictures of the World Trade Center on them. "Soon there will be no more of these cards also," one explained...
...Hajek has already produced a small furnace for up to 10 kg of glass. Four of the furnaces are currently in operation: two in the Czech Republic, one in France and one in the United States. Hajek says a 30-50-kg model will be available for sale in September. With patents granted or pending in some 60 countries, thousands of years after man first learned how to combine soda from ashes, lime from seashells and silica from beach sand to form glass, Hajek is ready to set the world of crystal manufacture on fire with his microwave furnace...