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Welcome to the communal table. Except for the occasional dim sum pig-out, Americans have traditionally liked their public dining experiences to be private, favoring booths, banquettes and sometimes even whole rooms that separate them from others. But lately, whether out of a modern need for community or an ancient urge to break bread in company, sharing dining space with strangers is appealing to a growing number of diners at all levels of the food chain. "I eat so many meals rushed, in front of the TV," says James Wheeler, 28. "It's sometimes nice to share a meal with...
With a disease as complex as cancer, it's easy to forget that sometimes the most effective defense can be the simplest. Despite all the gadgets that modern medicine has to image, diagnose and track a tumor, there is an easier way to go about things. Researchers at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) conference in Chicago reported earlier this month that the best way to figure out how a cancer is progressing is to draw a little blood...
...overall effect is more than a laundry list of nifty features. It's the realization of the core metaphor of modern consumer computing, dating back to the Macintosh or arguably to the first computer mouse, introduced in 1968. The idea was that we would all pretend that abstract digital information is physically real, that we could see it and manipulate it according to physical laws. The iPhone takes the graphical-user interface--the GUI, in the parlance, pronounced "gooey"--a step further and makes it a tactile user interface. You're viewing a little world where data are objects...
...main venues, and the rest scattered around the city. For each Biennale a "Commissioner" is chosen who organizes the big international group show that is a centerpiece of the fair. This is the first Biennale ever headed by an American, Robert Storr, a former curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and dean of the School of Art at Yale University. "Biennales are a crash course in contemporary art," he says. "They're a place where the general public at a relatively low cost can come and find out what's going on in the world...
...great deal of it photography, that's politically engaged. This is a show in good measure about a world in a state of emergency - in the Middle East, Africa, the Balkans, along the Korean Demilitarized Zone and countless borders - an emergency that is in some ways a consequence of modernity, and in other ways a consequence of our failure to be modern enough...