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...believe," Jean Dubuffet declared in 1958, "in the utility of oblivion. In fact I should like to see a mammoth statue of Oblivion in the main square of every town, instead of the libraries and museums. Let us make a clean sweep of the art of the past!" Fat chance. Such manifestos had already been part of the rubric of modernism -- or of a certain kind of modernism -- for the best part of half a century, since the Futurist Filippo Marinetti and the Dadaist Hugo Ball exhorted the young to burn their museums for the sake...
ernment, in competition with 2,300 other reporters, photographers, broadcast technicians and producers, requires special abilities, and some agility as well. The TIME correspondents and photographers who reported on last week's economic summit in Bonn are veterans of several of these mammoth affairs. They came prepared to encounter, and counter, almost every sort of logistical or substantive emergency...
...company's mammoth pipes will cover 37,000 miles, stretching from Canada to Texas, from California to Florida. InterNorth of Omaha announced last week that it would buy Houston Natural Gas for $2.26 billion in a friendly transaction that will create the longest natural gas pipeline system in the U.S. The combined network will deliver roughly 9% of the gas consumed...
Although both comets and asteroids can wreak considerable havoc if they collide with the earth, they are of very different natures and origins. Asteroids are rocky chunks that range in size from pebbles to a mammoth named Ceres that astronomers estimate to be as much as 600 miles across. Most of them orbit the sun in a belt between Mars and Jupiter and are thought to be either remnants of a planet that disintegrated early in the life of the solar system or celestial building blocks that never quite coalesced into a planet. Occasionally an asteroid is slowed...
Memories of that mammoth cavity in the middle of Harvard Square for five years are beginning to haunt residents of another Cambridge thoroughfare...