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...aversion to removing our earplugs, always answering the cell or responding to every e-mail doesn’t occur just because we may dislike the person attempting to reach us. It occurs because our now commonplace technologies—lauded for making the world a smaller place—are assaulting our solitude...
...presage large tremors. (He does not try to forecast smaller events, like the earthquake swarms that rumbled beneath Mount St. Helens before it erupted last week, or the more significant quakes that perturbed Parkfield, Calif.) At first he and his colleagues looked for strong quakes that had already occurred, then scrolled backward through years of seismic data. More recently they have been working with current seismic records as well. Their computer programs home in on small quakes that occur in temporal and spatial proximity, linking up in a mathematically defined chain. Only when a chain is preceded by longer-term...
Crystal L. Kelley, the manager of the Mass. Ave. Toscanini’s Ice Cream and Coffee, said the store raised prices about six months ago but said that she does not believe that another increase will occur anytime soon...
...These incidents occur very quickly and very often people walking by don’t know that it occurred,” Catalano said. This indecent assault—the 12th committed against Harvard students in the Square area since last October—is what HUPD formerly referred to as a “groping...
...similarly captivated by the fact that many of the flowers had some petals that were browning at the edge, or had leaves that had been ravaged by insects, while other petals or leaves on the same plant were pristine in their perfection?another phenomenon, he reasoned, that would rarely occur in nature. It was this combination of the hyperreal and the unreal, he says, that "taught me art is about possibility, about creating something from nothing, even things that don't really exist." Inspired, Takubo went on to build an eclectic career as a well-regarded artist who paints...