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...other big complaint is about the introduction of contemporary art. Fumaroli wrote an indignant piece in the French magazine Beaux-Arts about the biggest show to date, an exhibition by Belgian artist Jan Fabre that was held earlier this summer in galleries containing Dutch and Flemish masterpieces. Among the highlights: a table strewn with feathered sculptures depicting the severed heads of seven owls in the same room as Van Dyck portraits, and a gigantic earthworm wriggling on upended gravestones sharing a space with 21 Rubens depictions of Marie de Medicis. The show was part of a series called "Counterpoints," designed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Le Louvre Inc. | 7/16/2008 | See Source »

...lesson plan. Those are major advantages over paper editions, says Dana Lanham, an advertising professor at University of North Carolina in Charlotte. "Being online lets the content be so dynamic," says Lanham, who will teach some 70 students using Flat World texts this fall. "Usually textbooks are out of date as soon as you print them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coming This Fall: Free Textbooks | 7/16/2008 | See Source »

...testimony key statements about the impact of climate change on public health, White House staff countered that the science just wasn't strong enough to include. Not two weeks later, however, things already look different. University of Texas researchers have laid out some of the most compelling science to date linking climate change with adverse public-health effects: scientists predict a steady rise in the U.S. incidence of kidney stones - a medical condition largely brought on by dehydration - as the planet continues to warm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Warmer Temps, More Kidney Stones | 7/15/2008 | See Source »

...this recommendation in March 1995," when the NTSB originally made the request, said NTSB chairman Jim Hall at the end of the following month, "most Boeing 737s would have been retrofitted with an acceptable, short-term, improved recording capability by this time. The lack of FAA action to date is unacceptable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLYING INTO TROUBLE | 7/14/2008 | See Source »

...fact, the airline bought itself a virtually clean slate. "The FAA agrees that, except for violations of regulations concerning hazardous materials and civil aviation security," the consent order said, "it will not pursue any civil penalty for any violation of the regulations known by FAA as of the date and time of the execution of this agreement." How could it? The FAA could hardly go back and find the faults without admitting that it was to blame for missing or ignoring them in the first place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLYING INTO TROUBLE | 7/14/2008 | See Source »

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