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As Septimus Hodge says, “When we have found all the meanings and lost all the mysteries, we will be alone, on an empty shore.” Every meaning is properly discovered by a thoughtful performance of “Arcadia,” Tom Stoppard?...

Author: By Davis S. Wallace, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Stoppard's 'Arcadia' Works | 4/8/2008 | See Source »

Contemporary moms-to-be are embracing, and memorializing, being in the family way: commissioning artistic photographs of themselves, having their bellies cast in plaster and paying for 3-D sonograms that they frame or bind in prebaby albums. Says Jennifer Loomis, who has photographed nearly 2,000 pregnant women from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Art of the Womb | 4/3/2008 | See Source »

The situation is all too familiar: you leave William James Hall proudly waving a $10 bill earned in the name of scientific advancement, but suddenly become overwhelmed by an insatiable desire for an over-priced James Dean poster from the COOP or new Tannery boots with high-fashion exteriors that...

Author: By Jackie L. Nesi, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: One Saintly Steal | 3/12/2008 | See Source »

But funding from the government and cooperation from villagers have proved fleeting, and his plan to put artificial glaciers in over 100 villages of his native highlands now faces Everest-sized obstacles.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Ice Man' vs. Global Warming | 2/25/2008 | See Source »

If you were stranded in a foreign land, with little idea where you were or where you were headed, what would you do? Flirt with a stranger, of course. “Do you like Chet Baker?” the Egyptian man in a police uniform asks the lady...

Author: By Anjali Motgi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Band's Visit | 2/22/2008 | See Source »

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