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...with only one road winding through the verdant landscape. It occurred to me that in all its empty, raw beauty, wilderness is the ultimate luxury. Jumping from Alaska's uninhabited wilds to the overcivilized luxury-goods business may seem like a stretch, but these days even denizens of the latter are talking about sustainability and how they can become more environmentally conscious. This special supplement to TIME is dedicated to the idea of green living in all aspects of design, including architecture, beauty products, furniture and fashion...
...President Bush at prayer, Towey told a handful of reporters that he was leaving the White House to become president of St. Vincent College, a small Benedictine college in Latrobe, Pa., which, Towey noted, boasts the world's largest monastery and a proximity to the Rolling Rock brewery. (The latter seemed to most interest the press corps.) He showed off a picture of himself with President Bush from earlier this month after he told the President of his resignation. Bush has him in a playful headlock and joked at the time that Towey just took the job so he could...
...intricacies of fiscal policy. In fact, part of the beauty of this type of literacy is that both a specialist and a generalist can gain insight from the same set of facts. The former may understand the implications for future research in far greater detail, but the latter can still appreciate the contribution to the big picture...
Anti-immigration forces, especially House Republicans, have chosen the latter set of words, framing the immigration debate as a question of proper equality. They claim they are motivated by nothing but respect for the law, then state their opposition to “amnesty.” Illegal immigrants have broken the law, they argue, and should face the consequences—deportation or, at least, criminalization to induce them to leave. “Amnesty” is deemed unfair to the millions who wait patiently to enter the country legally. If illegal immigrants are granted...
...dies in the original myth) to a blurry image of Eurydice dropping a glasses case (the catalyst for her death in the play)—is projected onto a screen as well as onto what look like two huge girders criss-crossing the stage. The latter foreground the images, making them almost another character. Because the stage is mostly open, the play uses light to delineate it—portraying shifts between dreaming and waking, or Earth and Hades, by subtle shifts in the quality of the light. At times, it is less subtle: when lighting designer Christopher Akerlind...