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...along the Arctic Circle. Bucky, as he was known to everybody, was an authentic American visionary, the kind who could seem at first glance--and not just at first glance--like a bit of a crackpot, something between a panoramic intellect and one of those "outsider" artists who manically fill in every free space of their drawings. There were too many ideas in his teeming brain, most of them system-wide and cosmic in scale. He was unconfined by the real-world considerations that keep you and me from envisioning massive spherical communities that would float from place to place...
Then again, what are visionaries for if not to launch thought balloons? And 25 years after his death at age 87, there are unmistakable traces of Fuller's thinking in everything from prefab housing to sustainable green architecture. That's more than enough of a legacy to fill "Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe," a show of drawings, models, videos and pipe dreams that runs through Sept. 21 at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City and then reprises next summer in Chicago...
Harvard's central academic office has taken advantage of summer downtime to fill two vacancies, officials from the provost's office announced last week...
...Bravo. finally, U.S. officials are enforcing the law. Illegal aliens are being rounded up and deported. They chose to break the law; the U.S. owes them nothing. Unemployment is rising and legal workers will fill the slots the illegals vacate. Bill Mrazek, Hohenwald, Tennessee...
...noon, three hours after recipients began gathering along the side of the dirt road. The reason for the delay: the weekend's diesel delivery never arrived from Kampala. "We spent most of the morning getting the little bit of fuel out of the other trucks so we could fill two to drive here," says Simon Okiseng, a senior field worker. "If the fuel doesn't arrive today, there will be no distribution tomorrow...