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...photographic equivalent of landing a junior fellowship at Oxford University. Then, in August, his book Sleeping by the Mississippi was published to widespread acclaim (the Washington Post spoke reverently of Soth's "Old Master formality"). The next stop is England, where Soth's Mississippi exhibition runs at the Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool until Jan. 29. Shot over five years with a large-format camera, Soth's work depicts a journey that progresses from the Mississippi's snow-covered northern reaches to the Delta's squalor. But Sleeping by the Mississippi is less about the river than the spirit...
...green (the latter is made with spirulina) from grandparent to parent to child. A four-year-old downs his, smacks his lips, and challenges mom to a toast. Cries of "Ganbei! [Cheers!]" echo in the hall as faces flush and cigarettes are lit. Tourists from Japan, Taiwan and Korea eye one another, making prideful toasts. A table is accidentally tipped over, a pitcher smashes to pieces, and a janitor mops up. Then the next group's shouts and laughter spill into the room as the bartender begins to pour...
...most corrupt countries, on par with Sudan and just above Iraq. Still, others are confident that Yushchenko is committed to transforming Ukraine's corrupt economy and institutions into a more robust democracy. Mykola Yakovyna, a key campaign staffer, said: "There is much more to Yushchenko than meets the eye." He may at times seem soft and irresolute, but "nothing can be further from the truth...
...getting enough of the math right to fool the eye. Because computers don't have enough horsepower yet to simulate, say, every flake of snow in a drift, academics like O'Brien attempt to figure out how much we need to see to believe a scene is real. That's appreciated by animators and video-game artists who want simulations that look good but don't take a weekend to run. (It can take hours of computer time to generate one second of animation, but video-game players want things to happen in real time.) O'Brien's programs have...
...laboratory, the hypothesis holds true. By introducing small changes to wind speeds and temperature in a computer simulation, Hoffman nudged the course of Hurricane Iniki, which leveled swaths of Kauai, Hawaii, in 1992. Shifts of up to 5 m.p.h. in wind speeds sent the eye of the storm on a track veering 60 miles to the west of the island, and 1??F fluctuations in temperature quelled its destructive winds. They sound easy enough, but in the real world those kinds of modifications "would require a huge amount of energy," says Hoffman, "not in the realm of what...