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...sure, complaints about trade and foreign ownership mask other issues. Thais may have marched on the Singapore embassy chanting "Thailand's not for sale!" but it was Thaksin, and his windfall from the sale of Shin Corp., that they had in their sights. "If [Singapore] took over a glass factory," says Kasit Piromya, a former Thai ambassador to the U.S., "it wouldn't be a problem. But this was a deal with the Prime Minister...
...kept hidden until now. The exhibit opened last week at the Cambridge Arts Council, and it profiles art made on an almost preposterously small scale by 11 artists from the New York and Cambridge areas.Small boats made from coffee spoons and matchsticks, unfinished model cars, vintage erector sets, little glass boxes full of tiny girls playing cat’s cradle—the exhibit takes intimate and treasured objects, often the outgrowth of childhood obsessions, and places them in the public eye. The gallery literally provides magnifying glasses for the viewers, allowing visitors to examine the most precise details...
Scene, meanwhile, Freeze’s club-going older sister, is set to send another tremor of upper-glass guilt across campus in mid-May with the release of their second issue. According to editors Emily Washkowitz ’08 and Rebecca A. Kaden ’08, Scene 2’s going to be just like Scene 1, but better. Expect photo shoots, undergrad fashion designers, and senior profiles. Also see Scene’s “Style” blog on CampusTap.com, but keep your pants on for the magazine’s website (www.sceneonline.org...
...canned sardines and salmon mashed up with the bones, cooked dried beans, soy foods and, of course, milk. But I agree with Harvard's Walter Willett and others that dairy products are not the preferred sources. In the Nurses' Health Study, Willett found that postmenopausal women who drank two glasses of milk a day were no better protected against bone fractures than women who drank a glass or less a week...
...architectureis concerned, if the 20th century was the age of the box, the 21st is fast becoming the age of the wiggle. Over the past few years, and especially after the debut of Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, the sturdy glass-and-steel rectangle, for decades the default mode for serious buildings, has begun to give way to the parabola, the whiplash curve and geometries so irregular, there's no point in looking them up in geometry books. Thanks to a combination of insistent forward thinking by architects and ever more ingenious computer-design software, buildings...