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A gathering crowd is no indication of artistic achievement. The critical consensus at the 2000 Biennial, though, has closely mirrored popular opinion. This was the year of the video: Douglas Aitken's installation "Electric Earth," which chronicles the nocturnal wanderings of a young black man through the streets of Los...

Author: By Teri Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Report from New York | 5/12/2000 | See Source »

The Sri Lankan army pays out a lifetime's salary to the families of its slain soldiers - and right now that policy may be set to place new strains on the defense budget. Tamil Tiger rebel forces reportedly broke through government lines near the town of Jaffna Wednesday, two days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Sri Lanka, an Empty — but Expensive — Threat | 5/10/2000 | See Source »

RACK 'EM UP Do those wobbling, teetering stacks of CDs on your desk and shelves make you nervous? Julian Brown, the award-winning British designer of the famous Hannibal tape dispenser (you know, the one that looks like an elephant), has a simple solution: the CD2 ($12.50 at Counterpoint, 888...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief: May 1, 2000 | 5/1/2000 | See Source »

One in particular I would have loved to see alive was a short-necked giraffe relative that had huge "antlers," some with a span across the horns of close to 8 ft. (almost 3 m). There were buffalo-size antelopes with massive curving horns, carnivores that must have looked like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Extinctions Past And Present | 4/26/2000 | See Source »

But dealing with the extinction crisis is no simple matter, since much of the world's biodiversity resides in its poorest nations, especially in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Can such countries justify setting aside national parks and nature reserves where human encroachment and even access is forbidden? Is it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Extinctions Past And Present | 4/26/2000 | See Source »

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