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...Sixties teletypewriters, radar blips showing "hostile Soviet sorties" and air-raid target maps of the world (all donated by the Ministry of Defence) re-create the atmosphere of the atomic age. The mood shifts from the terrifying to the ridiculous in the onsite cinemas, where plummy BBC voices calmly instruct the nation on how to protect their homes against the big one. Sandbags, they proffer, would do nicely. Depressing? Not everyone thinks so. For $1,445 you can hire the licensed wedding venue to get hitched, but be warned: there could be fallout. Open seasonally, from Easter weekend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tunnel Visions | 9/26/2005 | See Source »

...Sixties teletypewriters, radar blips showing "hostile Soviet sorties" and air-raid target maps of the world (all donated by the Ministry of Defence) re-create the atmosphere of the atomic age. The mood shifts from the terrifying to the ridiculous in the onsite cinemas, where plummy BBC voices calmly instruct the nation on how to protect their homes against the big one. Sandbags, they proffer, would do nicely. Depressing? Not everyone thinks so. For $1,445 you can hire the licensed wedding venue to get hitched, but be warned: there could be fallout. Open seasonally, from Easter weekend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tunnel Visions | 9/25/2005 | See Source »

Barth added that researchers did not instruct the children to think in terms of numbers—the subjects did so on their...

Author: By David Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kids Have Innate Math Ability | 9/23/2005 | See Source »

...itself (TIME, July 6 et seq.), there was no climax. Judge Raulston, having denied the defense an injunction against Teacher Scopes' indictment on the ground that the state anti-Evolution law was quite unconstitutional, and having further refused to admit scientific evidence (save as affidavits* in the record to instruct higher courts) by which the defense would have sought to disprove Scopes' misdemeanor through "reconciling" the Biblical with the scientific account of creation, there remained to the trial nothing but the bald testimony of two schoolboys that Scopes had "taught Evolution." Though the trial lasted a fortnight, costing over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Great Trial | 8/5/2005 | See Source »

...bathroom is a corrugated-iron extension at the rear of the tent, and features a stylish, freestanding bathtub open to the sky. Excursions include visits to rock art and fossil sites and to Chambers Pillar, a sandstone monolith 40 km away. There are also hunting tours, where tribal elders instruct you in the gathering of "bush tucker"?local foods like grubs and wild plants. Meanwhile, at Titjikala's art center, guests can meet local artists as they busily transmute the desert's vivid colors into pieces destined for big city galleries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Desert Rose | 7/11/2005 | See Source »

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