Word: meta
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Fuss sucessfully infuses a kind of meta-realism into his work, using the actual process as a means of bringing the outside world into abstraction. His photograms—prints created sans negative, by placing objects directly on photosensitive material—resemble a cross between the line and drips of Pollock and the intertwining strands of a DNA molecule. In his photogram from the series “Details of Love” (1992), childlike and uneven multi-colored (but predominantly black) squiggles dance around the browned surface, pulling and leaping and creating a tangled web. The lines...
...statue, Young Diana, depicting the goddess balanced delicately upon the backs of three large fish, her bow and arrow pointed towards Zeus. Hyatt’s attention to detail is remarkable, and the fish appear so real that they might jump back into the sea. Also moving is Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller’s Bust of a Woman, a partial cast of her Emancipation that now resides in Harriet Tubman Square. A photograph of the entire statue—showing young slaves newly released from the terror of a young bird’s claw, representing slavery?...
...their part, the drug manufacturers stand firmly behind their products. Merck says its own meta-analysis, which contains data that weren't included in the JAMA study, shows that Vioxx is safe for the heart. Others have focused on the study's admitted limitations, including its direct comparisons of dissimilar patient groups. Says Dr. Michael Friedman, a senior vice president of Pharmacia: "The JAMA article is based on theory, not on solid data...
...doctors combined the data from several studies about COX-2 inhibitors in a statistical process called meta-analysis. Then they looked to see if the information could tell them anything about heart-attack risk--something that the original trials had not been designed to explore. Such after-the-fact, or retrospective, analysis falls pretty low on the scale of scientific reliability. But sometimes it provides good clues about where problem areas...
...meta-analysis, published in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association, showed that those who took COX-2 inhibitors suffered slightly more heart attacks than those who took older, aspirin-like drugs. The authors considered several explanations. Since the older drugs help prevent heart disease, the JAMA study might only be picking up the absence of a protective effect in the COX-2 inhibitors. Or the new painkillers might actually promote the creation of blood clots. Or both processes might be at work. The point, Topol says, is that "the cardiovascular effects of the [COX-2 inhibitors...