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...people from highland New Guinea looked at some of the Cro-Magnon cave art, they wouldn't see anything recognizable"-and not just because there are no woolly rhinos in New Guinea either. Today we can see almost anything as an aesthetic configuration and pull it into the eclectic orbit of late-Western "art experience"; museums have trained us to do that. The paintings of Chauvet strike us as aesthetically impressive in their power and economy of line, their combination of the sculptural and the graphic-for the artists used the natural bulges and bosses of the rock wall...
Important, worthy projects, to be sure. But do they require a laboratory that costs $30 billion and is only expected to last for fifteen years? It would be much cheaper to launch unmanned satellites into orbit with experiments on board...
...space shuttle Discovery may not be able to get as close to the Russian space station Mir as planned. Shortly after Discovery reached orbit this morning, two of its steering thrusters failed; one of the thrusters is leaking and may compromise the crew's ability to steer the shuttle at close range to the station. The eight-day mission is a rehearsal for a June mission during which the shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to become the first to dock at Mir. At Discovery's controls on this mission: Captain Eileen Collins, the first woman to pilot a U.S. spacecraft. Nineteen...
...Time Daily for the cuts' impact on consumers and financial markets.)The move exceeded most Fed-watchers' predictions and will raise the cost of borrowing for millions of Americans, throwing a wet blanket on newly-empowered Republicans' plans to cut taxes and also send other conservative economic programs into orbit. Clinton administration officials, who have refrained from criticizing the earlier Fed efforts to put the brakes on economic recovery to prevent inflation, merely emphasized the Fed's policy-making freedom. But congressional Democrats howled: House Budget Committee Chairman Martin Sabo, D-Minn., for example, said the two rate increases would...
...band has performed a number of now-leg-endary routines, including showing Sputnik in orbit (on the very same day the real satellite was launched), champagne pouring into a glass (complete with bubbles and a "hic") and a pen writing the word "Crimson" across the field. In 1953, for one performance only, the band did a drill on ice skates at Boston Garden...