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...more than the original price tag for the entire U.S. interstate system. But Texas, going it alone, is seeking private companies to take on the mammoth job of constructing, financing, operating and maintaining the network. To pay for the roads, developers will rely on a familiar but long-neglected method of financing: tollbooths...
...experiences have shown that this intuitive and seductive method can also be very successful. In my first painting class, my teacher employed this method, asking me to loosen my grip on the brush so that the medium could help to clarify my ideas. As the son of first generation Indian immigrants unsure of their place in American culture, art-making in this liberated manner provided me with powerful tools for self-discovery. I made experimental videos on interracial adoption, compared the Mogul miniature tradition with Rothko and was compelled to carry my insights abroad to spend a summer in India...
...addressing difficult issues of social context that have been problematized certainly, but hopefully not disposed of entirely. In response to my questions regarding social meaning, several professors countered with a worst-case scenario of propaganda creation. But I was not asking to be taught a fixed method for incorporating social context into my art. I was only asking for an open discussion of the issues at stake in art-making and its potential broader social consequences. I think that taking time out to explicitly address these issues in the department’s pedagogy could help strengthen...
Students found that only the woodlot and the location of the farmhouse exhibited phosphate levels that were significantly different than in the other areas. These findings indicate that the method of testing phosphate levels only “sort of” works, said Tuross...
...three times a week, the members of Anthropology 1140, “Human Modification of the Landscape,” have met exactly once—for 10 straight days in the Harvard Forest—and spent their time poking holes in the validity of a scientific method that to date has been considered watertight...