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...know it. Look closer at the camouflage jacket on the back of your favorite hip-hop star, or the neon-colored sneakers on the feet of the latest pop dance sensation. Chances are you'll see the silhouette of a heavy-browed gorilla, the logo of the graphic designer's company, A BATHING APE - a streetwear icon that grew out of a hole-in-the-wall Harajuku storefront to become a Japanese Gen-Y obsession, an Asian fashion fetish and eventually a global phenomenon. Sold only in limited quantities and only through his A BATHING APE boutiques in Japan, Hong...
Aesthetic Extravaganza. For a few days in early December, Miami will become the center of the art and design world: During Art Basel Miami (Dec. 4-7), 250 galleries will exhibit 20th- and 21st-century painting, sculpture and anything else that can be defined as art. At the concurrent Design Miami (Dec. 3-6), you can take a gander at furniture, lighting and everything else design-related exhibited in flashy spaces. Even if you have no money to spend, the art, objects and people make an interesting spectacle...
...least in part, the old-fashioned way: by rebuilding sewer systems, bridges, schools and other ailing parts of the nation's infrastructure. After the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis collapsed in 2007, killing 13, the National Transportation Safety Board identified some 740 bridges of similar age and design in the U.S. They'll be targeted for repair. But Obama believes that the country could invest wisely in a new generation of green jobs as well, in fields such as alternative energy and advanced biofuels. He has long promised to make the economy more energy efficient, but his plans in this...
...design everything around one person or one family or a couple of people, it's not going to work forever.' SEIF AL-ISLAM GADDAFI, son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, on the nation's plan to adopt a constitutional democracy at the end of his father's one-man rule...
...time trend that should be watched.” At Harvard, the picture is more mixed. Asian women outnumbered men at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences—the unit of Harvard that grants Ph.D.s—and at the schools of dentistry, design, education, government, law, medicine, and public health. But the number of white men exceeds the number of white women at all graduate schools except in the schools of divinity, education, and public health. When asked about this trend, Russian studies professor Terry Martin said that rise in the number of women has been...