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Another unimpressive display was just as arbitrary and unbefitting. This one involved a fragment of an old coaxial cable in a vitrine. The exhibition text argued that Evans believed the object to be a portion of the cable belonging to the phone used by Marcel Duchamp during his stay in the United States...

Author: By Kimberly A. Kicenuik, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MFA’s ‘Flashes’ Lackluster | 11/19/2004 | See Source »

...Niuniu has just returned from the hospital where she's been diagnosed as "mentally disordered." Outside she sees a city bustling with new roads, new cars, new phones, new buildings?and filled with a compassionless new breed of people chasing material wealth. She is a self-proclaimed "fragment in a fragmented age," left to dwell on her own adolescence and wonder where it all went wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Missing the Train | 9/6/2004 | See Source »

...Travelers usually stop overnight in the Shi'a enclave of Kargil?a fragment of Muslim Central Asia that somehow materialized in India. From there, a mountainous wonderland unfolds. The road wanders past Lamayuru monastery (looming amid somber peaks that belong on the cover of some fantasy novel), skirts Alchi monastery (with its incomparable 12th century frescoes), and then it's on to Leh, where the crumbling royal palace towers over rooftop pizza restaurants. More monasteries dot the surrounding valley, along with turquoise lakes and rows of whitewashed Buddhist chortens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Open Road | 8/2/2004 | See Source »

...billion-year journey. Formed at the same time as the planets of our solar system, the extraterrestrial missile originally lay at the core of a small asteroid. Then, some time in its voyage through the silent vacuum of space, a chance collision with another asteroid shattered it, sending this fragment hurtling toward its meeting with Earth 300,000 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cosmic Dreaming | 7/29/2004 | See Source »

...take place. Several Montagnards, including Ksor's uncle and mother, have denounced him in the state-controlled media. Dak Lak officials screened for TIME four minutes of edited video footage in which some protesters indeed advance on riot police and militiamen, but it's impossible to tell from the fragment who started the clashes, and the rest of the tape wasn't made available. Gia Lai Governor Pham The Dung even goes so far as to compare the protesters to Iraqi insurgents. "Terrorism does not mean they have to use explosives," he says. "They could even use martial arts." Scores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vietnam's Tribal Injustice | 7/18/2004 | See Source »

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