Word: designer
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...this date, Harvard remains the only Ivy League institution without any sort of women's studies program or concentration. Although 30 students have applied only one has been allowed to design a special concentration in the discipline. The Government Department's sole course on women and politics left the University with the departure of Ethel Klein for Columbia. Of the History Department's more than 100 courses, the three specifically focusing on women are taught by a junior faculty member who will be on leave next fall and whose future at Harvard is equally uncertain. While Women's History Week...
...fountain, which was designed last year by Peter Walker, former chairman of the Landscape Architecture Program at the Graduate School of Design, is endowed by its donor for six hours of running time a day, according to Oommen. Oommen did not comment on the amount of money saved or lost due to the fountain's inactivity over the winter...
...Karabegovic, secretary-general of the organizing committee for the Sarajevo Games, "that all of the stores in the city still have the Olympic emblem in the windows and that many men wear this Olympic tie?" He thrust forward a cravat with a snowflake and five rings woven into its design. "It is a small thing, but it is significant. Before, our city was known as a town of ashes, the place where a war began. Now it is a town of the Olympics and of friendship; much has changed...
Above all, he brought to it a renewed sense of design. Caravaggio's work moves from clutter toward the irreducible: tracing their signs for energy and pathos in the dark, his bodies acquire a formidable power of structure. Sometimes it is very clear; the figure of David holding up the head of Goliath (the Goliath is a self-portrait, a striking rehabilitation of a "monster" as heroic victim) has the abruptness of an ideogram. Elsewhere it is subtler: the geometry of his Saint Catherine consists of two triangles, one formed by the saint's gleaming upper body and dark skirt...
...University of Illinois, Meteorologist Robert Wilhelmson hopes to simulate the birth of a tornado. Hidenori Murakami, a structural engineer at UCSD, aims to predict the effects of earthquakes on skyscrapers, bridges and other structures. And at Cornell, researchers working under Wilson want to use their new machine to design a supercomputer a thousand times more powerful than the one they are about to receive...