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...addition, the number of Americans 85 or older is expected to skyrocket from 3.3 million today to 18.9 million by the year 2050. Studies have shown that the physiological problems associated with the low gravity of space travel--for instance, cardiovascular de-conditioning, balance problems, depressed immune response and, of course, disturbed sleep--parallel age-related problems...
With seven women showing up to chat about their alma mater in Dallas and eight in Ft. Lauderdale, Wilson's outreach effort was hardly a tour-de-force...
...find new markets. The Pharmed Group of Miami, with $65 million in sales and 140 employees, has watched as its sales of latex gloves were hammered by this new competition. The company used to ship 2 million gloves a month to South American customers. Now, says president Jorge de Cespedes, "the Asians are dumping their products on our customers at such a low price that we cannot compete. We're shipping a container of a million latex gloves about every other month." The company has shuttered two offices in Latin America and has temporarily shelved plans for expansion. De Cespedes...
...influence was indirect. Pollock's mature style--based on dripping and flinging skeins of paint onto a canvas flat on the floor, building a web of interaction among line, surface and color from above--was so much his own that to imitate it was self-evidently absurd. Willem de Kooning had shoals of imitators, because his work was grounded in a long European tradition of figure painting. Not Pollock; his central insights were too decisively...
Rather, Pollock became an exemplar of risk and openness. It wasn't just that, as de Kooning said, he "broke the ice" and forced American art onto an international stage, where it had never had a place before. It was that the freedom implied in his work challenged and provoked other artists to claim an equal freedom in theirs--not only in painting but also in sculpture, performance art, dance and music...