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...after several attempts to replace it with a modernistic structure. The 1897 building had long been inadequate for the central library; it was reincarnated as a branch library and a cultural center, in large part through the efforts of Mrs. Richard Daley, widow of the mayor. Though its vast mosaic-lined entrance halls and twin marble staircases leave little room for a functional library, the interior has been restored in all its original quattrocento palazzo splendor at a cost of $12 million. Architect Gerrard Pook of the 99-year-old firm of Holabird & Root points out that a new central...
...past and citing his "personal and ambivalent" feelings toward his former employer.) Journalism critics may argue that a newsmagazine, a TV network and two daily papers on opposite coasts are not strictly comparable, and they will be right. But Halberstam does not compare them. Instead, he constructs a vast mosaic out of the things they have in common...
...Olympus Mons picture is actually not a single photo but a mosaic of small ones. Mechanical shutters on the Viking cameras snap a stream of images that are broken into their constituent colors by a series of filters. Eventually an electronic beam scans the resulting image, translates it into tiny electrical impulses (8.7 million per photo) and sends them to earth...
Lecture: June Goodfield, adjunct professor at the Rockefeller University and Cornell Medical Center, author of "Playing God: Genetic Engineering and the Manipulation of Life," on "Science and the Mosaic of our Culture." 277 Science Center...
Punishment raises some of the most difficult questions that the moral intelligence has ever confronted, and most of man's answers over the centuries have been neither very moral nor very intelligent. The principle of exact retaliation formulated in Mosaic law ("An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth") was actually a kind of early legal reform that placed precise limitations upon the extent of permissible revenge. When medieval kings began establishing strong central authority, and various offenses were perceived as crimes against the king's peace and his formal vanity, the older...