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...second scare at MIT on Tuesday was resolved when officials determined that the white powder on another envelope was, in fact, construction dust...
Something else happened though, when the dust had settled enough so that particle masks were no longer mandatory. The fundamental shift in funniness, it was nowhere to be found. Irony is alive and well and more people are paying attention to it than ever before, say practitioners of the art like Kurt Andersen `76 (co-founder of Spy, former editor-and-chief of New York magazine and co-founder of Inside.com) and Andy Borowitz `80 (a regular contributor to the New Yorker and NPR’s Weekend Edition) because in every time of darkness, dark humor comforts where platitudes...
...second report of white powder, at MIT’s Human Resources Department, proved to be a false alarm, according to a statement by David Diamond of the MIT Medical Department. The powder turned out to be dust from construction...
Northern Afghanistan subsists in biblical times - except for the Kalashnikovs, that is. There is no electricity, no indoor plumbing, no running water. The average lifespan is less than 50 years. A three year drought has ground everything into a yellow dust, a choking powder that clogs lungs and obscures hope...
...huge black petunia blooms in the desert. Mist rises from its center. Its petals ripple. Wait, it's not a petunia; it's a circle of people. People in chadors, the head-to-toe black coverings of orthodox Muslim women. It's not mist; it's dust. They're on their knees, digging in the sand. The scene--from Passage, Shirin Neshat's newest video, a collaboration with composer Phillip Glass--is starkly beautiful, revealing itself slowly, as in a glass, darkly...