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...winner, Janine Antoni, once attachedherself to an electroencephalograph and spent thenight sleeping in a loom. She later used the loomto weave a blanket featuring the brain wavepatterns from her dreams...
These changes can't occur in a vacuum; public debate and scrutiny of the effects of technology are sorely missing in our rah-rah culture. It's not merely possible to question the Information Age without throwing the proverbial loom in the river--it's one of the civic responsibilities we bear in a sometimes brave, sometimes frightening, new world...
Many other Rooseveltian acts loom larger in historical retrospect than they did at the time, when they passed unnoticed or unappreciated. For example, T.R. was the first President to perceive, through his own pince-nez, that this nation's future trade posture must be toward Asia and away from the Old World entanglements of its past. Crossing the Sierra Nevada on May 7, 1903, he boggled at the beauty and otherworldliness of California. New York--his birthplace--seemed impossibly far away, Europe antipodean. "I felt as if I was seeing Provence in the making...
...Kharga Oasis, some 125 miles southwest of Luxor, Egypt, is hardly the first place you'd think to look for mummies. No pyramids loom there; no mausoleums mark it as a portal through which Egyptian nobles entered the afterlife. Think of it as the Peoria of Pharaonic times, a backwater where ordinary peasants and farmers lived and died--and left pretty ordinary remains...
...getup includes sweatpants, preferable gray, a sweatshirt complete with Harvard insignia or the name of his favorite city and white sneakers he would ordinarily wear nowhere but the MAC. Oh, but how could Dartboard forget? The most important part of the image--the scruffy beard. As thesis deadlines loom ever closer, senior men have become increasingly hairy. Styles have reverted to the pre-Peter the Great era, as men opt to type rather than shave...