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...David Rockwell's world, every room has room for more. For a restaurant he's currently designing in Japan, for example, he's devising a way to overarch some of the seating areas with waterfalls, onto which will be projected holographic fish that people could try to grab as they eat. It's as if he fears that eating and shopping--even gambling--are not fun enough. They have to be encased in color, movement, texture, visual bons mots. People have to be distracted while dining out, or like little children they'll get bored and start banging the cutlery...
...that way, Rockwell is like us. He understands our desire for the Next Thing, for something we haven't seen or done before. He shares our longing to have each experience be just a little bit bigger and more resonant than the last--our need to look at holographic fish while we eat sushi. And he knows our attention span is short, because his is too. What makes Rockwell different from other artists is that instead of being dismayed by our growing collective add, he embraces it. One of the many reasons he found designing the sets for Hairspray gratifying...
McDonald's oil change will make its fried foods--including French fries, Chicken McNuggets and Filet-O-Fish--better for the hearts of the 46 million customers who eat there every day, but it will not turn any of those dishes into health foods. Fries cooked in the new oil will have precisely the same caloric content and will do nothing to trim America's growing waistline. So eat fries from time to time if you must, but don't supersize them. Better still, try the salads...
...around 1:30 p.m. on Dec. 12, 1992, and Jahrani had just come back from the morning's fishing. "We didn't catch anything. It was like the fish knew something was about to happen. I had tied up the boat and was walking to my home for a siesta, when there was an incredible boom and the ground felt like a giant was shaking it. I was knocked off my feet. Everyone was in shock for a minute or two, then people were screaming, 'Run, run, the water is coming!' Next thing I know, I'm swimming near...
...Fish from the U.S. are not going to stop and show their passports before entering British waters." Malcolm Grant, chairman of Britain's Agriculture and Environment Biotechnology Commission, urging new controls on genetically modified animals...