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...willfully blind one as well--to think that the big energies of American Modernism are still with us. Which is not to say that there are not plenty of gifted and interesting visual artists in America, doing valuable work at the end of the 20th century. But cultures do decay and run out of steam; and the visual culture of late American Modernism, once so strong, buoyant and inventive, and now so harassed by its own sense of defeated expectations, may be no exception to that fact. Modern art was institutionalized almost as soon as it arrived in America...
...years. We're living longer, breathing cleaner air, drinking cleaner water. Crime is in free fall, with violent evildoing near a 22-year low, and the downtowns we once gave up for dead are bristling with coffee bars, green markets, life. New York City, that trusty symbol of terminal decay, is bloated no more. It boasts America's sharpest drop in crime, a rekindled economy and--mirabile dictu!--an $800 million budget surplus. Out in the suburbs, our gardens are costly and ambitious, and shiny grills are taking up residence on our new redwood decks. The statisticians assure...
When massive stars explode as supernovas, for example, they create a periodic table's worth of radioactive elements, some of which decay into antielectrons, known as positrons. A black hole, scientists believe, can also produce electron-positron pairs by superheating the material that spirals into its gravitational sinkhole. It was the radiation produced by annihilating positrons and electrons, not the antimatter itself, that was actually observed by Purcell at Northwestern and his collaborators at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington...
Harvard plans to renovate Widener Library and install a $28-million climate control system to curb the decay...
...library's money problems are exacerbated by what is known in preservation circles as the "acid paper problem," which has caused a sizable portion of Harvard's collection to turn brittle from decay...