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What all this means is that the Academy doesn't contain the world of nature; it's penetrated by it. That's a good metaphor for the cooperative dealings with the environment that Piano wants his building to symbolize. He sees the project as a step toward developing what he calls "the aesthetics of sustainability," a new vocabulary of forms for a future in which green buildings will be the norm. "The 19th century was about new kinds of construction," he says. "Steel and so forth. And the 20th century created a language for that. Now architects must develop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: King of the Hill | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

According to Costello, fisheries, or areas where a certain kind of fish is caught, represent a textbook example of a tragedy of the commons - the classic economics metaphor for a shared resource that is ruined because of competition between users. Giving fishermen catch shares - also known as Individual Fishing Quotas (IFQs) - doesn't dampen competition for fish, but manages it by essentially making fishermen stakeholders in a fishery. Costello explains that IFQs, which can be bought, sold or traded just like stocks, discourage overfishing by giving fishermen a vested interest in preserving the future health of the resource...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Could Quotas Keep Fish on the Menu? | 10/1/2008 | See Source »

...team that hadn’t won an ACC game in its program history!!! (Did you see that? That was an effect of a) repeating to empasize and b) use of the tri-exclamation point emphasis approach. Booyah.)So I’m bummed (see fourth paragraph for surfing metaphor to show you how bummed I was). I did some work in my room, cried a little, consoled myself with some beer, and for the most part, was pretty distraught. But then my friends came to the rescue. “Walt, pick up your head, my mate...

Author: By Walter E. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: WALLY WORLD: Backyard Football Cures All That Ails | 9/29/2008 | See Source »

...Take two aging but legendary actors of ye olde gangster cinema, mix in rappers, guns, and badges, add a healthy portion of serial-killer storyline, and top it off with a dash of cheap twist ending. But if I really wanted to draw out this clichéd food metaphor, this Al Pacino/Robert De Niro tag-team event would have to be more of a reheated meatloaf than a zesty fettucine alfredo. De Niro and Pacino, two of the most esteemed living movie actors, play a duo of disgruntled, aging homocide detectives on the NYPD in the midst...

Author: By Alec E Jones, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Righteous Kill | 9/19/2008 | See Source »

...trying to seal away its afflicted leader like the boy in the bubble. From now on, candidates in swing states won't go near him without a mask, gloves and a bottle of Purell. John McCain, the party's nominee, is promising to fumigate Washington. Add one more metaphor of sickness: the lame duck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moment | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

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