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Which you certainly couldn't say about the French pavilion. The 54-year-old Parisian artist Sophie Calle has filled it with a multiroom installation, called Take Care of Yourself, which is an insanely energetic takedown of a ratty ex-boyfriend who walked out of her life with a pious, high-minded e-mail. Or did he? Halfway through this pavilion it occurred to me that the boyfriend, and the e-mail, might be fictitious. Which makes no difference to the deliciously over-the-top mechanisms of the piece...
More than 40 million Americans go camping every year, and apparently many of them are redefining their idea of rugged outdoorsmanship. Nowadays campers can languish in multiroom tents, cuddle up in adjustable-temperature sleeping bags, roast game hens in "outback ovens." "People don't want to go outdoors and get dirty and wet," explains Tom Huggler, author of The Camper's and Backpacker's Bible. "They want to be safe and comfortable, and they want a smooth experience." And they are willing to pay for it. According to the National Sporting Goods Association, a trade group, sales of camping...
Although the LCR is not a multiroom facility, many of the proposed Women's Center functions could effectively be run from the single room. For example, the LCR could house a library of gender-related reading and films. LCR staff have already started developing a database of local women's resources that could serve as the foundation for a referral service. A coalition of women in extracurricular activities could be run through the LCR as a means for developing more connections between undergraduate women. Informal seminars and other meetings could be run out of the LCR to provide faculty, students...
...forensic examination got under way last week, the medical investigators worked in strict secrecy. Outside the third-floor multiroom lab at the Instituto Medico Legal, armed military policemen stood guard around the clock. Within days, the original five-man team of examiners had grown to seven; early on, they discovered signs of an injury in the pelvic area that might correspond to a broken hip Mengele reportedly suffered in a wartime accident (though Rolf Mengele said he knew of no such injury). After preliminary tests on the 208 bones before him, Coordinator Wilmes Roberto Teixeira reported that he had found...
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