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...Conveying the sweep of 20th century art, with its many manifestations, is a tricky business. "History without chronology can become volatile," warned Le Monde's Harry Bellet in an otherwise favorable review of the Pompidou show, "and the 'Big Bang' strongly risks staying in a gaseous state." But volatility can be good, according to Robert Rosenblum, a New York University art historian and Guggenheim curator. "There has been such exposure, in fact, overexposure to 20th century art," he says, "that museums have to shuffle the deck around from time to time for people to see things...
...industrial, responsible for some combination of dirty air and polluted water (both surface and sub-surface) with complex consequences for both human and ecosystem health. It was relatively easy to associate cause with effect. Burning coal adds large concentrations of sooty materials to the atmosphere, in addition to gaseous compounds of nitrogen and sulfur oxides and a variety of toxic elements including, for example, mercury. The effluents from coal burning have a demonstrably negative effect on human health. It took a series of air pollution disasters, however, in Donora, Penn., and in London in the late 1940s and early 1950s...
...valuable contribution to 20th century demonology. Unfortunately for Wagener, fate continues to be unkind. His book drags him from the mercy of oblivion to play the part of history's fool. The Hitler he intended to re-create is not a tragic hero but a monumental bore. Gaseous generalizations and crackpot theories pour forth Like beer at an Oktoberfest. He thrills to something called the Odic force, "power rays" that flow from healthy bodies. He invokes Einstein's mathematics to justify his own mystical yearnings and "inner vibrations." He attempts to cross socialism with Darwin. He sees Jews as both...
Five days later, PECO technicians took air samples at the Watras home and discovered extraordinary concentrations of radon, a radioactive gaseous element that can cause cancer. The technicians were so startled by their finding that they ran their test a second time. The result was the same: the samples showed the house contained what turned out to be the highest concentration of the colorless, odorless, tasteless gas ever found in the U.S. The Pennsylvania department of environmental resources estimates that by living in the radon-tainted environment for one year, Watras, 34, and his wife Diane, 33, had been exposed...
...Gunung Bromo, Indonesia, 2,392 m It may be an easy 30-minute hike from car park to crater rim, but Bromo's frequent rumbles and gaseous emissions serve to remind visitors not to take this giant too lightly. Time your trip to Java's famed volcano for the dry season (June through October), and clear skies should afford stunning views of the surrounding Tengger Caldera. Sunrise watchers should start out at 3 a.m. from the nearby town of Cemoro Lawang, and cross the Lautan Pasir?the sandy plain at the volcano's base. From here, a concrete staircase leads...