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...when he was still living in China, the artist Cai Guo-Qiang began experimenting with a very Chinese medium. And a very tricky one: gunpowder. He would sprinkle it on fibrous paper, then light it to create a "drawing" of burned residues. He moved on to produce outdoor "explosion events," using fireworks to create spectacles on the ground and in the sky that he related to Taoist ideas about destruction and transformation. By now, Cai (pronounced Sigh) is an old master of blast art. Which is funny, because at 50, he's a soft-spoken man with a modest manner...
...called the police. The victim was not physically hurt, and the offender never spoke during the incident, according to a community advisory from HUPD. The advisory described the offender as a white male in his fifties or sixties, around 6 feet in height—“with medium build and white bushy hair, clean shaven, and wearing a long black coat, dark colored shirt, and dark shoes.” There are currently no leads, and no arrest has been made, according to Pasquarello. Students said yesterday they did not feel particularly threatened by the incident...
...study Researchers at the biotech firm Novocell report the first successful use of human embryonic stem cells (HESCs) in treating a disease--diabetes--in mice. After generating HESCs from excess fertility-clinic embryos, the scientists cultured the cells for 12 days in a medium that directed them to become pancreatic cells. These were transplanted into mice whose own pancreatic cells had been deliberately destroyed, making them insulin-deficient. Within 45 days, new cells began producing fresh insulin...
...inherent inadequacy from permeating his narration. As Millhauser’s characters are consumed by a desire to break beyond the realm of perception imposed upon them by their environment, so does their creator strive to transcend the limitations of language only to remain shackled by his medium.—Staff Writer Anna I. Polonyi can be reached at apolonyi@fas.harvard.edu...
...Hamas exacted a toll to avenge the deaths of what Israel claims were Iranian-trained senior instructors. The Islamist militia opened up its arsenal, hauling out medium-range Grad rockets which struck the port city of Ashkelon, while dozens of short-ranged Qassams peppered Sderot and other towns near Gaza on Wednesday, killing an Israeli student...