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...mitigate family conflicts. Marta Lowe, 32, who lives in Maryland, got married on a farm in Vermont rather than in her hometown, Olympia, Wash., where she feared her estranged divorced parents would spoil the atmosphere. "If I got married where I grew up, people would have come just to glare at each other," Lowe says. With rehearsal dinner and postwedding brunch the new norm, brides and grooms today spend as long as four days with their guests, says Millie Martini Bratten, editor in chief of Bride's magazine. "People live such busy lives that to have a wedding where everyone...
...that was before the invention of the video camera and the globalization of news. It was one thing to frog-march a Malay headman to jail or torch a Kenyan village in the privacy of one's own colony; it's quite another to do so in the full glare of TV lights. One unarmed Afghan--or Iraqi--killed by a scared G.I. can have greater political consequences than a truckload of humanitarian...
...that was before the invention of the video camera and the globalization of news. It was one thing to frog-march a Malay headman to jail or torch a Kenyan village in the privacy of one's own colony; it's quite another to do so in the full glare of TV lights. One unarmed Afghan - or Iraqi - killed by a scared G.I. can have greater political consequences than a truckload of humanitarian...
...University of Waterloo in Canada is anxious to use Spheral solar cells in its new School of Architecture building. "The beauty of this material is that we can use it on curved surfaces, but we can also swag it like a textile to provide shading and cut out glare on windows," says Rick Haldenby, director of the school. So theoretically the curves of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and the Sydney Opera House could be covered, as could lap-tops and cell phones, to generate their own power. The future, it seems, will be jeanetically modified. - By Robin Banerji
...moment far more ambiguous than any of those; intellectual anguish is permissible. War may be the correct choice, but it can't be an easy one. The world might have more confidence in the judgment of this President if he weren't always bathed in the blinding glare of his own certainty...