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...muralist, Todd McKie, had been commissioned this past summer by the Cambridge Arts Council (CAC) for the purpose of decorating the outer and inner walls of the pool.A bus shelter was also commissioned for the stop near Russell Field on Rindge Avenue and a series of rose and clear glass panels, covered by a corrugated tin roof, were put in place by minimalist sculptor Taylor Davis.Two weeks after it arrived in the neighborhood, the shelter was smashed, leaving marks the size of bullet holes in the cracked panels.In the early 1990s, Israeli artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles designed a large sculpture...
...they’re getting their money” someone says of the wait staff who have asked us to show restraint. And besides, I’m told, the creation of sake bombs, whereby shots of the rice wine are precariously situated between chopsticks running parallel atop a glass of beer, necessitates the raucous slamming of fists. There’s just no way around it.In the course of our couple hours there, the grimaces on the sushi chefs go from mild bemusement to annoyance. I drunkenly wonder aloud of the possibilities of a culture of decorous restraint that...
...system for vaccinating all young children. Diarrheal disease experts say Glaxo is selling its vaccine for as little as $7 a dose in Brazil. "For the poorest developing countries that's still unaffordable, but with greater use and greater manufacturing, that price will go down," says Roger I. Glass, director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health's Fogarty International Center and former chief of the viral gastroenteritis unit at the cdc in Atlanta, Georgia. One dollar is about the price that Thai doctor Wandee would like to pay for the rotavirus vaccine. Rotavirus is the leading cause of diarrhea...
...Streiff is hoping to address these issues head-on, not just because he is new both to Airbus and to the aerospace industry (he's a manufacturing expert from the French glass company Saint Gobain), but also because the company is facing its biggest crisis since its founding in 1970. The company has slashed its delivery schedule for the A380 from one plane in 2006 to zero, from nine planes in 2007 to one, and from 25 planes in 2008 to 13. That's a significant setback for the behemoth's main customers, including Emirates and Singapore Airlines, which...
When Van Epps met with SonyStyle's executive team to unveil the short list of smell contenders--carried in small glass vials in his metal lab briefcase--he asked each member to give personal preferences and professional assessments. He says that helps clients avoid having individual quirks (a hatred of apples caused by having to eat one every day after school or a resentment of violets because they call to mind being ditched on prom night) cloud the search for a suitable corporate scent. Each smelling session was limited to just a couple of samples, since the nose's ability...