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...online before March 29, you can snag a fair example of Totalitarian Kitsch at the Sotheby's/eBay auction of Maoist artifacts www.sothebys.com) At last glance, $172.50 would get you three red plastic badges with cameo silhouettes of the Great Helmsman. And when the new and improved Peabody Essex Museum reopens in June, it will feature on its grounds an early 19th century Chinese merchant's house, which the museum has moved in its entirety from the Huizhou region near Shanghai to Salem, Mass...
They were not exactly celebrating, of course. But according to Harvard AIDS researcher Max Essex, nobody really expected it to work. Indeed, says Essex, although a dozen other vaccines are in early stages of testing, "it's extremely unlikely that anything already in trials is going to be a home run." That's because it can take five to 10 years to get a vaccine into clinical trials, and scientists' understanding of HIV has evolved considerably since these vaccines were designed...
...Image and Empire” features about 50 different works of art that capture different views of colonial India. The objects in the exhibit come from Harvard and from other local institutions and lenders such as Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, the Peabody Essex Museum and private collections...
...light snack at midday is nothing to be ashamed of. Yet although the city has welcomed its hamburger restaurants and panini stands with open arms, le fast food has traditionally been viewed as a disreputable foreign invention. Today, thanks to superstar chef Alain Ducasse, veteran of New York's Essex House and Paris' Plaza Athénée, fast food is well on its way to attaining gourmet credibility. How did Ducasse pull off this culinary miracle? Simple. Like any self-respecting Frenchman, he invented an original concept (original, at least, to Paris). That concept...
...need of a valence review for quantum mechanics has turned to the pop princess’ online study aid: Britney Spears’ Guide to Semiconductor Physics (http://britneyspears.ac/lasers.htm). The website, which was written and designed by Carl Hepburn, a post-graduate physics major at the University of Essex, UK, has been around for two years, since Hepburn celebrated his admiration by placing the famous pop star amidst descriptions of valence and conduction bands...