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...have serious financial problems,” recalled Putnam, who served for two years under Knowles. “We worked our way out of it. In the end, it feels like a party, but that’s looking at history through the wrong end of the glass...
...Corporation, James R. Houghton ’58, was a subplot to the unraveling of the Summers presidency. Knowles was a close friend of Houghton, whose family endowed his professorship in chemistry. After stepping down as dean in 2002, Knowles joined the board of his company, Corning Inc., a glass and fiber-optics maker in upstate New York, where he served until April...
...socialism in the sky" to which Sun refers, is a planned complex of 72-storey towers that could be deemed a monument to Deng Xiaoping's notion that "to be rich is glorious." Plans call for three glass-and-steel towers linked by bridges and topped by a giant, disco ball-inspired sphere. It will be surrounded by a moat and will house several hundred apartments, a luxury hotel, a revolving restaurant, a gym, a doctor's office and a tanning salon...
...done right. Unlike New York whose residents bemoan gentrification and Paris whose Centre Pompidou and National Library offer a morbid look at modernization, Tokyo knows how to mix tradition with transformation. Shrines are married seamlessly to the city landscape, the modern buildings are marked with ancient Japanese touches like glass panes that imitate noren (a traditional cloth), and midtown high-rises are laid out in patterns that replicate ancient rock garden principles. The food echoed this fusion. I traveled nearly 7,000 miles expecting to be blown away by exoticism but I was equally overwhelmed with nostalgia. My dichotomous experience...
...word “glass” often evokes images of beautiful, vibrantly colored pieces of art, but “Sea Creatures and Glass: Marine Invertebrate Models of Rudolph and Leopold Blaschka,” up at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH) through next January, offers a different type of appeal. The glass sea creatures, like their live counterparts, range from pastel-colored to dull shades of brown, remaining true to the features of the species they depict.The collection of over 400 creatures, from sea anemones to sea cucumbers, has belonged to the Museum of Comparative Zoology...