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...mountains. Large windows flood the interior with light. In the new art gallery, paintings and photographs hang next to ceremonial objects and carvings by Alaskan natives-the message being that traditional crafts have as much cultural importance as fine art. But it's the museum's most innovative display that best captures the region. The Place Where You Go to Listen, the vision of Fairbanks artist John Luther Adams, is a computerized chamber that translates into light and synthesized sounds the cycles of the Alaskan wilderness-seismic activity, moon phases, positions of the sun, and so on. Data on these...
...captains this weekend—Bode Ogunwole, who is sidelined for the rest of the season due to a triceps tear, and Robbie Preston, who hurt his knee during practice on Wednesday but is expected back by next weekend. The Crimson, however, managed to display the depth of its lineup with dominating wins in the middle weight classes to capture three straight victories. Harvard (5-6) improved to 4-3 in the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association (EIWA) and 2-1 in the Ivy League. The team will remain at home next weekend to face national powerhouse Cornell along with Columbia...
...race to market, Plastic Logic took an early and significant lead. On Jan. 3, the company announced it would build a factory in Dresden, Germany, to create its flexible, portable text display - a device that would let you carry your whole library on a sheet of plastic. That makes it the first plant proposed anywhere that would produce plastic transistors on a commercial scale. Plastic Logic's plant attracted $100 million from such backers as Oak Investment Partners, Intel, Bank of America and BASF. "We believe there is nothing silicon transistors can do that polymer transistors won't be able...
...original Social Museum attempted to order this cacophony into digestible educational panels. The panels were so numerous that the ‘new’ Social Museum at the Sackler, on display through April 22, includes only a fraction (120 out of more than 3,000) of the originals...
...Virtually everywhere you look here, there are worrisome pathologies on display. There's the Scooter Libby trial, which turns on whether White House officials took the nation to war winking along the way - and then punished anyone who had the nerve to call them on it. Then there's the steady scheduling of "briefings" and "backgrounders" by conservative think tanks here about the Iranian threat - a desperate attempt to change the subject from Iraq. This is a dodge that is working almost perfectly, especially in that it never concedes that Iran is a growing regional power now in part because...