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...sure I follow Dr. Hill's logic. How are ads for alcohol any more dangerous than ads for other products that, taken to excess, can cause health problems, like wine, beer or fatty foods? This is an interesting moment for public advocates to get their knickers in a twist, considering all the products that are currently advertised freely, without any semblance of guidelines, all over television...
...Mughals, the Muslim rulers of India from 1526 to 1858, were the Taliban's basic nightmare. They loved jewelry and ornamentation of all kinds, gleefully adapted local and European techniques and had a high threshold for excess. This eye-popping exhibition includes all one can imagine making with precious stones (dagger handles, walking sticks and fly whisks) and lots of things one cannot (a back scratcher, a pedestal for a huqqa--hookah, to some--and a conch-shell holder). The show, organized by the Kuwait National Museum and the Met, will also bedazzle London; Cleveland, Ohio; and Houston. Be warned...
...steel industry's problems are roughly the same as they were at the turn of the century when Carnegie Steel, Federal Steel and eight other steel companies formed the behemoth U.S. Steel: Excess capacity, slumping prices and profit margins squeezed by too much competition. (The pension problem came later.) That merger helped, but debt-ridden, none-too-efficient U.S. Steel steadily shed market share over the next century - especially to an explosion of foreign competitors after WWII - and today produces only marginally more steel than...
...tungsten bulbs. It was only when Uncle Abe showed me his spinthariscope and I saw the individual sparkles in this that I started to realize that light, all light, came from atoms or molecules which had first been excited and then, returning to their ground state, relinquished their excess energy as visible radiation...
...plan for the old Polaroid plot had contained a 577-car garage, which residents protested would bring excess traffic. Six local activists, calling themselves the Cambridge Neighborhood Initiative, sued the plot’s developers to protest the garage plan. In 1999 Polaroid and Spaulding & Slye Colliers announced a plan to build three residential buildings instead of a garage...