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...translator was needed between Azerbaijani singer Alim Qasimov and the rest of the Silk Road Ensemble once they began playing together. When Qasimov, wanted to cue the other musicians to add new segments, he would mimic the motion of playing an instrument, and together the ensemble began smoothing the gaps between movements. In an age where everything seems to be inter-something (international, interdisciplinary, intercultural) it’s surprising that the world has not been blended into one big smudge. Although the Silk Road Project falls under the category of “inter...

Author: By Athena Y. Jiang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Why Did the Cellist Cross the Silk Road? | 11/30/2007 | See Source »

...helps that Eden is visually stunning. Visitors descend into the former clay hole, now landscaped and studded with native vegetation, to arrive at the main attraction: two honeycombed domes, shaped like grapefruit halves, bubbling up from the base. These are the biomes, giant greenhouses that shelter the flora and mimic the climate of tropical rain forests and Mediterranean farms. Enter the humid and heated rain-forest biome on a drizzly Cornish day, and you'll soon break a sweat worthy of Singapore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard: Cornwall | 11/21/2007 | See Source »

...helps that Eden is visually stunning. Visitors descend into the former clay hole, now landscaped and studded with native vegetation, to arrive at the main attraction: two honeycombed domes, shaped like grapefruit halves, bubbling up from the base. These are the biomes, giant greenhouses that shelter the flora and mimic the climate of tropical rainforests and Mediterranean farms. Enter the humid and heated rainforest biome on a drizzly Cornish day, and you'll soon break a sweat worthy of Singapore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.K. Takes Green to the Extreme | 11/16/2007 | See Source »

...injecting ourselves with Botox. But we're definitely on the cusp of a new era of do-it-yourself dermatology. While cosmetics companies such as L'Oréal and Avon have for several years been selling souped-up scrubs and exfoliators billed as microdermabrasion kits, and antiwrinkle creams that mimic the effects of dermatologist-delivered aesthetic fillers, this is different. These new treatments are scaled-down versions of the light-based devices used by dermatologists to treat skin ailments, all designed so that a consumer can use them. Even hair removal via an at-home laser is on the table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cosmetics: The Newest Wrinkle | 11/12/2007 | See Source »

...rich cultural heritage outweighed social commentary or renegade brush strokes. For centuries, Chinese students spent their school years laboriously copying the ink landscapes of ancient masters. The same held true in India, where artistic merit often was equated either with an ability to reproduce themes from religious epics or mimic the miniaturist details of the Mughals. In Vietnam, the 20th century's most promising painters attended the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de L'Indochine, an academy set up in Hanoi in 1925 by a classmate of Henri Matisse. There, the idiom was Western classical - with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Color Of Money | 11/1/2007 | See Source »

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