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Having lived in America both before and after 9/11, Al-Dewachi says he has seen firsthand the changing nature of such consciousness. Photographed, fingerprinted and screened by the Immigration Naturalization Service, Al-Dewachi speaks of this exhibit as a way to mediate this form of racial science and profiling. “Racial science still exists and is alive and present,” he says, “only today it is undertaken in the name of security and not science...
...understand. Why are they making new things? It's so useless." Useless because doomed. Futile because humanity had no future. That's what happens to a man who worked on the Manhattan Project and saw with his own eyes at Alamogordo intimations of the apocalypse. Feynman had firsthand knowledge of what man had wrought--and a first-class mind deeply skeptical of the ability of his own primitive species not to be undone by its own cleverness...
...understand. Why are they making new things? It's so useless." Useless because doomed. Futile because humanity had no future. That's what happens to a man who worked on the Manhattan Project and saw with his own eyes at Alamogordo intimations of the apocalypse. Feynman had firsthand knowledge of what man had wrought - and a first-class mind deeply skeptical of the ability of his own primitive species not to be undone by its own cleverness...
Lafayette coach Frank Tavani saw firsthand precisely how talented the then-unheralded freshman was when his Leopards played host to Dawson’s coming out party, a 218-yard, four-touchdown performance that put an end to Tim Murphy’s running back by committee experiment. Yet, he and his coordinators were utterly powerless to prevent a repeat incident one year later...
SHOES! There's a love-hate relationship at the bottom of every woman's closet. On one hand, who doesn't want to look movie-star chic in a towering pair of Manolo Blahnik pumps? On the other hand, ouch! As too many women know firsthand, those sexy stilettos aren't just impractical and painful; they can do serious long-term damage...