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Artist Yi Zhou's latest sculpture has all the trappings of a Cold War - era secret, so she's appropriately mum about the details of its creation. What she will say is that it took help from NASA scientists to shape her medium, a translucent substance called aerogel, into a likeness of a human heart. For the Shanghai-born artist, the absorbent material - used aboard NASA's Stardust probe to trap dust from comet tails - represented a new artistic frontier. Cajoling some from the space agency took years. "I had to show them I was serious," she says...
...strategy here is: more is more; success by any medium necessary. For Scholastic those ancillary products aren't just additional sources of revenue - though they're sure as shootin' that too - they enhance the overall entertainment experience. "That was really the genesis of this," Riordan says. "How can we make an experience that's not simply the book, that's all these other elements as well, that get the reader involved in a number of different ways - that really get kids where they live? What are they interested in, and how can we get them hooked into this series?" After...
...ludicrous compression of arguments, the need to drown out other guests to get a point across. The casual-garbed Maddow also felt awkward having to "dress like a Senator" on TV. But as her radio work proved, Maddow's a quick study. She got on top of the medium quickly. Certainly the MSNBC brass thinks so. Otherwise they wouldn't have dumped Dan Abrams' The Verdict to make room...
...often contrasted your more reflective, subversive type of cinema with Hollywood-style "cinema of comfort." Given opera's tragic tradition, does it seem like a medium where you're less expected to comfort audiences...
...listen to songs in the context of the album they appear on. "Just to take bits and pieces of this and that I think is not as enriching an experience," he says. Jarreau is also more than a little blasé about reaching out to fans via the crucial medium of the day, the Internet. The last diary entry on his website, www.aljarreau.com, is dated April...