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...award, by creating an easy optical illusion with their floor. (Ridges cut into the floor and painted orange on one side and blue on the other caused the floor to miraculously change colors depending on your position.) The Switzerland pavilion showed the work of Urs Luthi, Andy Guhl and Norbert Moslang, providing inspirational messages on coffee mugs and mannequins on exercise equipment...
...utilities commission can give it an exemption and keep the juice flowing. That loophole has prompted some 9,000 applications ranging from the reasonable, such as one from the San Diego Zoo?electrified fences make good zoos?to the ridiculous, including those from liposuction clinics and taco stands. The Norbert Wabnig Cheese Store of Beverly Hills has applied because, says Shivon Ryan, cheeses are "perishables and require refrigeration." (And who knows how many Angelenos might perish without goat cheese?) Sick Dog's Tattoo parlor in Westminster absolutely requires power to avoid "panic poking," according to owner Frank Salderelli. (NOTEBOOK...
...dual narrative strands, beautifully woven by director Daisy Prince, add a layer of irony and melancholy to what otherwise might have seemed a pretty routine story. Jamie (Norbert Leo Butz) is a Jewish writer on the rise; Kathleen (Lauren Kennedy) is an Irish-Catholic actress whose career never takes off. There are clever interludes--an audition in which we hear Kathleen's inner turmoil, set to the melody of the song she's performing--and unabashedly romantic ones, like a mock Russian folktale that Jamie sings to his beloved on her birthday. The show is too sketchy in spots, particularly...
...political or military leader. That's where the slope gets slippery. Another, smaller part of the NRD's activity is the placement in corporations of what are called nonofficial cover officers--paid CIA employees who work without diplomatic immunity. Many companies are leery of accepting CIA officers. Says Norbert Garrett, a 27-year veteran of the CIA's clandestine service and now president of Kroll Associates, a global security firm: "You can jeopardize the company or the officer involved." The Internet executive, asked if he would consider placing a CIA officer, replied, "Absolutely not. I've got to protect...
Most scientists and lawmakers agree with Dr. Norbert Gleicher, chief executive officer at the Center for Human Reproduction in Chicago, who seriously the feasibility of Seed's project...