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...through the head-high reeds in dizzy spirals and whorls.But change is coming for the 90 species of birds, from hawks to owls, that call the wetlands home. The construction of the new Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CFA) building in Alewife will lead to the removal of some nesting places, but also, community activists hope, open up the wetlands to a much broader range of animal and plant species in one of Cambridge’s wildest spaces.In addition to the birds, 19 different mammal species, including woodchucks, foxes, and weasels, live near the site of the new building.A...
...Nuvo, Sit Inventor: ZMP Inc. Availability: Now, starting at $7,000 To Learn More: nuvo.jp Tired of coming home to an empty nest each night? Try Nuvo. This 15-in., two-legged bot can dance, talk, play music, tell time and even shake your hand. It can respond to 40 simple commands (like "Nuvo, let's dance") in a Japanese-accented female voice and take pictures with the Cyclops lens mounted on its head. The 15 motorized joints in its body allow Nuvo to perform tricks like headstands and head rolls, as well as to roam freely around the house...
...height of his powers. “The Passenger” came out in 1975, “Chinatown” had come out the year before, and later that year he would appear in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” for which he would receive an Academy Award. Here, in the role of journalist David Locke, his sheer charisma in the role enthralls and sucks in the audience. His shark’s grin is as present as ever, and he wields it recklessly, bringing credibility to a character that...
...with bulging lenses of glass; a major addition to the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minn.; and a soccer stadium in Munich. Their relatively small firm has also snagged one of the biggest architectural commissions of the decade, the 2008 Olympic Stadium in Beijing, which will be an undulating nest wrapped in an irregular ribbonwork of crisscrossing steel...
...which also keeps a spherical white lantern dangling above his bed, if the term applies. Ching gave his bedframe to Matsui (for a king-size bed) and created a sleeping/sitting/lounging area on one half of his floor. The black fabric on the floor separates his desk space from this nest. A squishy black mattress pad, shaggy white rug, and a handful of black and white throw pillows make a “loungy feel,” Ching says. Large shards of broken mirror adorn the wall above his desk and two neat rows of square mirrors line another...