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...index of social reality shifted from the farm and the village to the impacted, simmering cities, a distinct visual aesthetic was bound to rise from American utilitarianism. It showed itself earliest--and most dramatically--in the art where science, material and common social needs intersected: architecture. Its great expression was the iron grid, which begat the skyscraper. The technology of cast-iron joists and columns as the skeleton of a multistory building had come from Europe, but it mutated and ramified in the U.S., especially in New York City. There early architects like Daniel Badger (1806-84) popularized...
...know what to call them, how are we supposed to cope with them? Are they a new and distinct category of "real" Americans, due the same respectful recognition--and governmental protections--as more familiar groups? Or should they be lumped into the demeaning catchall category of "minorities" or "other"? How we eventually answer these questions will affect everything from the first Census forms of the 21st century, which will be issued a mere three years from now, to university admissions policies to the way civil rights laws are enforced. Even more important, it may ultimately transform the way Americans identify...
...researchers used pet scans, which measure how well cells are functioning, to probe the brains of dozens of people in the active throes of depression. Then they merged the results and compared them with those from a comparable number of normal patients. The pet scans showed a subtle but distinct difference: the subgenual prefrontal cortex was almost 8% less active in depressed patients than in the controls...
...Runner' -- mode. Its true subjects are art direction, special effects and the show-off panache with which its director and co-writer, Luc Besson, deploys them." Besson's energy and inventiveness are considerable and, up to a point, quite entertaining. Indeed, one could argue that his work offers a distinct kinetic improvement over classic sci-fi, generally a talky and static genre with its space voyagers forever standing around discussing whatever strange phenomena they encountered in their travels, and none too subtly offering futuristic metaphors to help the audience understand. On the other hand, Besson, like most pop futurists these...
...happy to have alumnae support both institutions. We've never looked at it as a competition. The goals of the Radcliffe campaign are very distinct, and it doesn't overlap with what Harvard [requests]," Chamberlin said...