Word: note
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...twenty-one (goodbye fake ID’s), share a lovely moment while downing bottles of their respective beverages of choice, and get the VIP lounge all to themselves when it’s baby-feeding time. Now why didn’t I think of that? (Note to those thinking of improving your social life by trying this: while dancing, be sure not to drop your baby on the flo’.) Not to be outdone by these facetious puppets, Kanye himself putters around in the background of the video, occasionally offering up some back-up to the Puppet...
...you’ve been staring at for the past three weeks?It’s Harvard’s Northwest Science Building, and if it took you a while to place it—or you caught yourself flipping to the inner blurb entitled “A Note on the Cover”—it’s probably because the building is brand new, just out of its Tyvek wrap and with a few stray hard hats lying around to prove it. Designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM), San Francisco, it?...
...brief note before continuing though: while there is great danger in grouping all art from China into a single artistic category (just as it would be to group all contemporary American art into something similar) it is useful to think of Chinese art in terms of a series of coexisting and often overlapping subgroups (state-supporting art, commercial art, or overtly subversive art, to give a few examples) that are united by a universal challenge facing all artists of the Middle Kingdom: how do Chinese artists today reconcile their personal artistic convictions to the prospective financial boon of both appealing...
...education than men, but women are still more likely to work in clerical and service jobs. Blau and Kahn say women do make different choices when they decide on college majors and jobs - even highly educated women more often choose "female" occupations that pay less - but the authors also note that discrimination persists. As one example, they cite a 2000 study which found that when symphony orchestras switched to blind auditions - those in which the musicians play behind a screen - women had a significantly better chance of being hired...
...axing of words has revealed specialized meanings that seem to have escaped the dictionary's compilers. David Pybus, a perfumer in London, says agrestic's alternate meaning should qualify it for preservation: "It is used," he says, "in the perfume and flavor industry quite extensively to describe an aroma note or type which is 'of the countryside,' such as hay, heather, forest depths or meadow." Who knew? Elsewhere, fantasy-game devotees have rushed to the defense of periapt (a charm or amulet), which they know from the popular Dungeons & Dragons game, and geologists have pointed out the utility of griseous...