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...more surprising considering much of it was fine-tuned from a modest warehouse in Sydney's inner-west. "It's the nervous center at the moment," jokes Australian architect Peter Lonergan, the commission's project manager, who for the past year has employed up to 10 scenic painters, enamel firers and glass cutters to bring the artists' dreams to reality. Late last month, Time was given an exclusive preview of the work in its final stages before being freighted off to Paris for installation. With 2,500 sq m of public art, "every square millimeter involves a number of really...
Harvard students are nervous wrecks. In order to get here, we’ve had to keep careful tabs on our accomplishments, always making sure that our soccer trophies were a little bit bigger, our papers a little bit longer, and of course, our GPAs a little bit higher than our competition’s. No wonder we’re kind of edgy...
...This new system would encourage students to take the intellectual risks they’ve been nervously avoiding for so long. Rather than reinforce our nervous tendencies, the reversible pass/fail option might even help us in an area in which we all deserve a big, collective F: relaxation...
...book remains a best seller for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, its publisher. Rumsfeld had no comment. As for Barry, whose observation about being nice to waiters was lifted, the whole episode leaves him feeling weirdly connected to the Secretary of Defense--and a bit nervous. "I hope when they build their missiles, they're a little more careful about where they get their information," he says. "Because if they're getting any of that from me--well, if we ever launch anything, it'll land in Vancouver...
...once a bull market becomes this obvious it pays to tread lightly. Speculative money--mainly from hedge funds--has been pouring into the metal, and once something goes wrong, it will pour out just as fast. "We're getting a little nervous," concedes Anton Pil at JP Morgan Private Bank. But forecasts like DiGeorgia's are not all that outlandish. We may be in a modest inflationary cycle, and if you adjust for the past 26 years of inflation, gold should be at $2,150 already. Potentially, there is a lot of ground to make...