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...windows on the 107th floor could not accommodate the machine, and he would attend to them manually, suspended from a harness. Camaj, 60, was on the observation deck on the 107th floor in 1993 when a bomb hit the building. It took him 2 1/2 hours to descend by stair, his mouth covered with one of his damp sponges, his doffed shirt covering the mouth of a pregnant woman he escorted down. He was back at work the next day. "He said working that high up took some getting used to at first, but he found it peaceful, his escape...
Every other summer, hundreds of the world’s most prestigious artists, selected by a rigorous international jury, descend upon the lagoon to show their work—work that often makes Plessi’s flames seem positively tame. Sumo wrestlers fight amid a candy-colored geometric background in one room, while another man tries to walk on ice wearing spherical shoes and a human nipple is transformed into an evening bag. There are bronze garbage bags and terra-cotta plungers, photographs of rest-room graffiti and gorgeous formal painting. There’s even a flying steamroller...
...revelation made headlines a month ago: Thanks to a rhesus monkey named Godot, and his astounding good health in the face of repeated viral injections, researchers are increasingly optimistic about a new AIDS vaccine. Now, as scientists and activists descend on Philadelphia for the 2001 AIDS Vaccine conference, more details are emerging about this very welcome development. Researchers are pelted with questions: How has this vaccine kept Godot, a test subject at Emory University?s Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center, so healthy, even as scientists injected him with deadly levels of the HIV virus? And, more important, given the same...
...Perhaps. If you descend from the writing of history to the practice of journalism, you encounter a slightly different problem involving the portrayal of personalities. It concerns a technique of braying, ad hominem caricature that has become a substitute for thought and analysis in the work of a number of commentators and performers - Maureen Dowd and Rush Limbaugh, for example...
...taste of Eternal China, take a look at the Jinghai Temple today. Despite generations of official atheism and the wholesale destruction of temples and feudal beliefs, two dozen elderly women in floppy blouses and polyester pants cheerfully descend on the holy site, praying to Tianfei and the East Sea Dragon God. They shake their clasped hands in passionate devotion, bow their heads low before the celestial statues and burn copious quantities of incense. They pray that the sea won't turn on them, that their fishermen husbands won't be drowned, that their houses won't be wrecked by typhoons...