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...gold star, then, to Jane and Louise Wilson, to those who dumbfound. Not just to those who make old ladies faint and the complacent squirm, but to those who remind us that making sense of art is not always enough, that sometimes you just have to love it first. Two of the Wilsons' video installations, "Crawl Space" and "Stasi City," are showing at the MIT's List Visual Arts Center through April 9, in a rare U.S. appearance and a lucky one for Boston. To find more of the Wilsons' work now showing in this country you have to travel...
...culpa points to two trends. One is a lapse in judgment by some of the journal's editors; the other is medicine's increased reliance on drug-company funding for research. "The New England Journal of Medicine is still the gold standard in credibility," says TIME health writer Janice Horowitz. "However, medical studies in general are not what they used to be. You see more and more conflicts of interest. You often see drug companies financing studies...
Remember when the gold watch was a metaphor for retirement from a corporate culture that cared for its workers during those years between wedding and Winnebago? A company took you in after college and for 40 years gave you Christmas bonuses and ignored your martini breath after lunch. In exchange, at 65 you left with a Rolex or a gold-plated Timex, depending on pay scale...
...retire (and the concomitant knowledge gap coming when ever younger workers take their places). These older workers will return from retirement or, better yet, never retire. Already nearly 70% of us expect to work after age 65. The question is, Which is more stifling, the paternalistic company with its gold watch as a reward for lifetime service, or the new paradigm: all work, all the time, all your life...
...that it would have been a mean little joke if the man's actual last name was Multi-Millionaire--a man who didn't have a dime to his name.) Watching the show was like watching a train wreck in slow motion--from the hostess dressed in ill-fitting gold, sequined spandex (my co-editor points out that no one should bare their shoulders at a religious event) to the millionaire's family and friends rating the various girls' swimwear to the poor attempts by the contestants to mask the importance of money in their decision to appear...